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I think I have fully grasped usque ad ultimas differentias the meaning of the Company, its shares, its principles, its reputation, its splendor, its initiation, its progress, its…
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Joseph Penso de la Vega
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1688
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He then returned to his city, filled with bitterness, humiliated, oppressed, and weak. He found his wife Ḥaya—who had been a picture of robust health and womanly valor when he had set out on his…
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Yosef Haim Brenner
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Russian Empire (Belarus, Belarus)
Date:
1900
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My father and mother were left alone and sat down for a moment; then my father said: “Well, shall we go up to bed?”
“As you wish, dear, though I don’t feel in the least like sleeping. I don’t know why…
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Marcel Proust
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1913
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He came across the meadows towards the sunset, his upturned face pushed forwards catching the light, and glowing also with another radiance than the rich, reflected glory of the heavens.
A curious…
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Amy Levy
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London, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (London, United Kingdom)
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1889