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    How To Be a Medieval WomanMargery Kempe
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    Only Dull People Are Brilliant at BreakfastOscar Wilde
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    The Book of TeaKakuzo Okakura
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    How We Weep and Laugh at the Same ThingMichel de Montaigne
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    How to Use Your EnemiesBaltasar Gracián
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    Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete JottingsJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Socrates' DefencePlato
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    The Maldive SharkHerman Melville
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    The Terrors of the NightThomas Nashe
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