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Aristocratic Life in Pre-Revolutionary Russia (1917)

According to my grandfather, Serge Obolensky, and contrary to popular belief, aristocratic life in Russia under the Czar was not a life of luxury. One sees photographs of the aristocracy in jewels and...

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The Woman of the Snow: Alexandra David-Néel

“Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.”

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More, or Less

Cut harder to clarify faster.

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The Middle

Persisting through the doubts

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Three Books

If you could take only three books with you through time

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The Anatomy of Melancholy

Robert Burton (1577-1640) was an English scholar at Oxford who wrote one of the most successful books of all time, called The Anatomy of Melancholy. How successful was it? From its first printing in 1...