Carolina QuotesThe idea — the core idea of humanism — is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them,..
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Chapter 10, Sentences That Are About Themselves (Aren't They All?), p. 137
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- How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011)
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- 2011
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