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Saint Patrick day legend

Saint Patrick day legend. A short biography of the patron of Ireland with his story, his faith, his legend and the day celebration traditions in the world. Christ with me, Christ before …

Carnival festival, an article that analyses the meaning of this celebration in the Christian societies with references to the most famous world Carnival parades and the Mardi Gras day. The principle of …

Memorial Day

Memorial Day, legal holiday observed annually on the last Monday in May in the United States, in honor of the nation’s armed services personnel killed in wartime. Happy Memorial Day! Thank you …

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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud

Quotes and aphorisms on love

Italy in brief

Short dictionary of literary terms

Aforismi volume quarto

Best quotes on books

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One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist... Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
Stephen Hawking

Life is, in fact, a struggle. On this point pessimists and optimists agree. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty is beautiful, but rare; goodness is often apt to be weak, folly to be arrogant, and wickedness to prevail; fools in the places of honor and the best aloof; and humanity, as a whole, unhappy.
Henry James

As far as the development of human happiness is concerned I would say that egoism is the higher form of stupid ignorance that prevents it.
Carl William Brown