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July's people
Moralia
Paradise Lost
The Art of War
Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica
Macbeth
Meditations
The Prince
King Lear
The Wealth of Nations
The Pilgrim's Progress
Candide
La Divina Commedia
De rerum natura
Tao te Ching
Don Quijote de la Mancha
Inferno
Confessions
Metamorphoses
La Poetica
Two Treatises on Government
Pensées
Areopagitica
Plutarchi Vitae parallelae
Φαῖδρος
الروض العاطر في نزهة الخاطر
πολιτεία
Godfrey of Bulloigne
Μένων
Summa Theologica
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