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Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Having grown up with this in our ears, it's startling to realize that other countries have nationalistic slogans of their own, none of which are 'We're number two!
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David Sedaris (Me Talk Pretty One Day)
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Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!
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Leo Tolstoy
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Lorelai smirked at Leo, who raised a brow and then glared up at the sky. "The two of you are conspiring against me again, aren't you?"
"She just wants to share her lunch with you."
Leo blanched. "Last time she shared, I got a face full of rabbit guts from above. Tell your bird to keep her victims to herself.
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C.J. Redwine (The Shadow Queen (Ravenspire, #1))
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Oh no." Lorelai pulled her hand from Kol's, her skin prickling with heat from absolute humiliation. Maybe if she prayed hard enough, the forest floor would open up and swallow her. If there was any justice in the world, it would swallow Leo too.
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C.J. Redwine (The Shadow Queen (Ravenspire, #1))
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She’d just watched Tristan McLean, her cool suave movie star dad, reduced to near insanity. Leo could barely stand to watch that, but for Piper—Wow, Leo couldn’t even imagine. He figured that would make her insecure about herself, too. If weakness was inherited, she’d be wondering, could she break down the same way her dad did? “Hey, don’t worry,” Leo said. “Piper, you’re the strongest, most powerful beauty queen I’ve ever met. You can trust yourself. For what it’s worth, you can trust me too.” The helicopter dipped in a wind shear, and Leo almost jumped out of his skin. He cursed and righted the chopper. Piper laughed nervously. “Trust you, huh?” “Ah, shut up, already.” But he grinned at her, and for a second, it felt like he was just relaxing comfortably with a friend. Then they hit the storm clouds.
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Rick Riordan (The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1))
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Modern researchers have identified one or more major mood disorders in John Quincy Adams, Charles Darwin, Emily Dickinson, Benjamin Disraeli, William James, William Tecumseh Sherman, Robert Schumann, Leo Tolstoy, Queen Victoria, and many others. We may accurately call these luminaries “mentally ill,” a label that has some use—as did our early diagnosis of Lincoln—insofar as it indicates the depth, severity, and quality of their trouble. However, if we get stuck on the label, we may miss the core fascination, which is how illness can coexist with marvelous well-being. In
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Joshua Wolf Shenk (Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness)
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I designed the Queen crest logo. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs [two lions for Leo, John and Roger, a crab for Cancer, Brian, and two fairies for Virgo, Freddie]…
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Freddie Mercury (Freddie Mercury: A Life, In His Own Words)
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We drive over the fields and the wind catches in my hair. I throw my arms back and face the sun.I feel like Leo in Titanic. 'Course, it only takes one pothole to snap me out of that little fantasy, and I hold on tight.
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Alecia Whitaker (The Queen of Kentucky)
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As the sun and each atom of ether is a sphere complete in itself, and yet at the same time only a part of a whole too immense for man to comprehend, so each individual has within himself his own aims and yet has them to serve a general purpose incomprehensible to man.
A bee settling on a flower has stung a child. And the child is afraid of bees and declares that bees exist to sting people. A poet admires the bee sucking from the chalice of a flower and says it exists to suck the fragrance of flowers. A beekeeper, seeing the bee collect pollen from flowers and carry it to the hive, says that it exists to gather honey. Another beekeeper who has studied the life of the hive more closely says that the bee gathers pollen dust to feed the young bees and rear a queen, and that it exists to perpetuate its race. A botanist notices that the bee flying with the pollen of a male flower to a pistil fertilizes the latter, and sees in this the purpose of the bee's existence. Another, observing the migration of plants, notices that the bee helps in this work, and may say that in this lies the purpose of the bee. But the ultimate purpose of the bee is not exhausted by the first, the second, or any of the processes the human mind can discern. The higher the human intellect rises in the discovery of these purposes, the more obvious it becomes, that the ultimate purpose is beyond our comprehension.
All that is accessible to man is the relation of the life of the bee to other manifestations of life. And so it is with the purpose of historic characters and nations.
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Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)
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I have no way to properly toast you, my Jane. The appropriate toast for a new Blood Master of a clan is from the jugular of a virgin boy or girl, with the words ‘Long undeath, prosperity, scions, blood, and cattle.’”
I looked at my beer. “Yeah. Beer is better. And how about ‘Live long and prosper.
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Faith Hunter (Dark Queen (Jane Yellowrock, #12))
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Leo Vincey, know now the truth; that all things are illusions, even that there exists no future and no past, that what has been and what shall be already is eternally. Know that I, Ayesha, am but a magic wraith, foul when thou seest me foul, fair when thou seest me fair; a spirit-bubble reflecting a thousand lights in the sunshine of thy smile, grey as dust and gone in the shadow of thy frown. Think of the throned Queen before whom the shadowy Powers bowed and worship, for that is I. Think of the hideous, withered Thing thou sawest naked on the rock, and flee away, for that is I. Or keep me lovely, and adore, knowing all evil centred in my spirit, for that is I. Now, Leo, thou hast the truth. Put me from thee for ever and for ever if thou wilt, and be safe; or clasp me, clasp me to thy heart, and in payment for my lips and love take my sin upon thy head! Nay, Holly, be thou silent, for now he must judge alone.
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H. Rider Haggard (Ayesha, the Return of She)
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Every day we’re told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it’s always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Having grown up with this in our ears, it’s startling to realize that other countries have nationalistic slogans of their own, none of which are “We’re number two!
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David Sedaris (Me Talk Pretty One Day)
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A bee settling on a flower has stung a child. And the child is afraid of bees and declares that bees exist to sting people. A poet admires the bee sucking from the chalice of a flower and says it exists to suck the fragrance of flowers. A beekeeper, seeing the bee collect pollen from flowers and carry it to the hive, says that it exists to gather honey. Another beekeeper who has studied the life of the hive more closely says that the bee gathers pollen dust to feed the young bees and rear a queen, and that it exists to perpetuate its race. A botanist notices that the bee flying with the pollen of a male flower to a pistil fertilizes the latter, and sees in this the purpose of the bee’s existence. Another, observing the migration of plants, notices that the bee helps in this work, and may say that in this lies the purpose of the bee. But the ultimate purpose of the bee is not exhausted by the first, the second, or any of the processes the human mind can discern. The higher the human intellect rises in the discovery of these purposes, the more obvious it becomes, that the ultimate purpose is beyond our comprehension. All that is accessible to man is the relation of the life of the bee to other manifestations of life. And so it is with the purpose of historic characters and nations.
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Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)
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She was not beautiful, or anywhere near it; but her face, a little too broad, and her firm quiet body, had the confidence of women who have never missed beauty, having had all they want from life without it. She wore a plain dark-red dress which was neither good nor bad; chosen, it seemed, with a thoughtless negative taste, assimilated to herself, and forgotten. She was almost wholly lacking in the paraphernalia of female competition; but its absence was like the absence of small change in the handbag of a queen. Hers was the rare, prideless assurance of the woman whose womanhood has not only succeeded, but has known what to take of success and what to leave aside. She was the kind of woman of whom other women say that they don’t know what men see in her. But Leo knew.
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Mary Renault (The Friendly Young Ladies)
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Before the game, he [Vin Scully] waxed poetic about Wrigley Field:
She stands alone at the corner of Clark and Addison, this dowager queen, dressed in basic black and pearls, seventy-five years old, proud head held high and not a hair out of place, awaiting yet another date with destiny, another time for Mr. Right. She dreams as old ladies will of men gone long ago. Joe Tinker. Johnny Evers. Frank Chance. And of those of recent vintage like her man Ernie. And the Lion [Leo Durocher]. And Sweet Billy Williams. And she thinks wistfully of what might have been, and the pain is still fresh and new, and her eyes fill, her lips tremble, and she shakes her head ever so slightly. And then she sighs, pulls her shawl tightly around her frail shoulders, and thinks, This time, this time it will be better.
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George F. Will (A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred)
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Good idea, Beauty Queen,’ Leo lied. ‘I nominate you.
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Rick Riordan (The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus, #5))
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He would shoot Trigga in the head killing him instantly, burn him beyond recognition and take his body to Queen, playing it off as Lloyd’s. The chick had to go, too. He couldn’t leave any loose ends. Leaning
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Leo Sullivan (Keisha & Trigga 2 : A Gangster Love Story (Keisha & Trigga : A Gangster Love Story))
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He called Queen to brief her on everything that happened so far. She was disappointed that Lloyd hadn’t been taken care of yet, but the fact that Trigga could tell her that all of his top men were dead brought joy to her tone.
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Leo Sullivan (Keisha & Trigga 3: A Gangster Love Story (Keisha & Trigga: A Gangster Love Story))
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He’d first met Trigga years ago before Trigga even started working with Queen. Back then, he and Gunplay wasn’t nothing but bad ass teenagers who weren’t afraid of shit and earned respect behind the barrel of a gun,
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Leo Sullivan (Keisha & Trigga 3: A Gangster Love Story (Keisha & Trigga: A Gangster Love Story))
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He had the nagging feeling that he needed to kill Mase right on the spot, but then the next issue would be that he had no inside man to get at Queen.
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Leo Sullivan (Keisha & Trigga 2 : A Gangster Love Story (Keisha & Trigga : A Gangster Love Story))
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Tish laughed but it didn’t seem genuine, almost forced. Keisha was scared to ask what was wrong because she knew she would feel guilty if Tish was still affected by what happened days ago with Queen. But
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Leo Sullivan (Keisha & Trigga 2 : A Gangster Love Story (Keisha & Trigga : A Gangster Love Story))
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He could feel his heart racing in his chest. She was asking a lot of him. Queen had paid him handsomely and his brother too. Money that he would have to pay back if he abandoned the mission. This was exactly what Gunplay was trying to warn him about. Trigga knew he had to stand his ground, be stern with her.
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Leo Sullivan (Keisha & Trigga 4: A Gangster Love Story (Keisha & Trigga: A Gangster Love Story))
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When someone makes a spectacular ass of himself, it's always in a French restaurant, never a Japanese or Italian one. The French are the people who slap one another with gloves and wear scarves to cover their engorged hickies. My understanding was that, no matter how hard we tried, the French would never like us, and that's confusing to an American raised to believe that the citizens of Europe should be grateful for all the wonderful things we've done. Things like movies that stereotype the people of France as boors and petty snobs, and little remarks such as "We saved your ass in World War II." Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos were born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Having grown up with this in our ears, it's startling to realize that other countries have nationalistic slogans of their own, none of which are "We're number two!
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David Sedaris (Me Talk Pretty One Day)
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A bee settling on a flower has stung a child. And the child is afraid of bees and declares that bees exist to sting people. A poet admires the bee sucking from the chalice of a flower and says it exists to suck the fragrance of flowers. A beekeeper, seeing the bee collect pollen from flowers and carry it to the hive, says that it exists to gather honey. Another beekeeper who has studied the life of the hive more closely says that the bee gathers pollen dust to feed the young bees and rear a queen, and that it exists to perpetuate its race. A botanist notices that the bee flying with the pollen of a male flower to a pistil fertilizes the latter, and sees in this the purpose of the bee's existence. Another, observing the migration of plants, notices that the bee helps in this work, and may say that in this lies the purpose of the bee. But the ultimate purpose of the bee is not exhausted by the first, the second, or any of the processes the human mind can discern. The higher the human intellect rises in the discovery of these purposes, the more obvious it becomes, that the ultimate purpose is beyond our comprehension.
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Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)
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In astrology, the Sun and Moon are a cosmic pair, king and queen of the day and night respectively.
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Sally Kirkman (Leo: The Art of Living Well and Finding Happiness According to Your Star Sign (Pocket Astrology))
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Lendler has come down through the decades to enjoy a place of its own in the distinctive argot of Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens. When you rented rooms from a lendler, you became his tenor. Singing had nothing to do with it.
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Leo Rosten (The New Joys of Yiddish: Completely Updated)
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At the customary age of thirteen Blake was apprenticed to an engraver named James Basire in Great Queen Street near Covent Garden, less than a mile from home. The apprenticeship lasted for the usual seven years, during which he lived in Basire's house, usually with one or more other boys. The youths put in thirteen-hour days for a work week of seventy-eight hours, with only Sunday off, and that was usual too.
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Leo Damrosch (Eternity's Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake)
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Carolina was Queen’s mother-in-law whom Queen had ‘volun-told’ to watch after Keisha while Trigga was away. Trigga had asked if Queen would stay with her, a request she quickly declined, but sent her mother-in-law instead. When
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Leo Sullivan (Keisha & Trigga 4: A Gangster Love Story (Keisha & Trigga: A Gangster Love Story))
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Queen’s beef wasn’t his, the same way Lloyd’s wasn’t Austin’s.
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Leo Sullivan (Keisha & Trigga 4: A Gangster Love Story (Keisha & Trigga: A Gangster Love Story))
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City, had a hit out on his life. One thing he knew about Queen was that she was a bitch with the mind of a boss nigga.
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Leo Sullivan (Keisha & Trigga : A Gangster Love Story)
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When Mase finally asked what the deal was, Trigga told him that Queen had told him that she’d rather only deal with him. He said that there was something about Mase that didn’t sit right with her and she wanted Trigga to get rid of him.
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Leo Sullivan (Keisha & Trigga : A Gangster Love Story)
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Queen ran most of the drug operations in the United States and was even the front-runner in some operations abroad.
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Leo Sullivan (Keisha & Trigga 2 : A Gangster Love Story (Keisha & Trigga : A Gangster Love Story))
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Now she was in her early thirties and there was no one who could battle The Queen’s Cartel. She let small-time hustlers like Lloyd eat from time to time because they didn’t threaten her reign, and it actually worked for her benefit occasionally that she allowed others to have a small come-up, but for the most part, she was that bitch.
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Leo Sullivan (Keisha & Trigga 2 : A Gangster Love Story (Keisha & Trigga : A Gangster Love Story))
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So if that’s the case and Mase is the one working with Lloyd, why you fuckin’ this bitch who got his name on her ass?” Queen
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Leo Sullivan (Keisha & Trigga 2 : A Gangster Love Story (Keisha & Trigga : A Gangster Love Story))
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It was still his plan to off Mase’s stupid ass right after he got the money and product after robbing Queen.
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Leo Sullivan (Keisha & Trigga 2 : A Gangster Love Story (Keisha & Trigga : A Gangster Love Story))
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He felt like shit for telling Queen that he’d failed at the one mission that was most important to her. To Queen, there was nothing more important to her than family.
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Leo Sullivan (Keisha & Trigga 2 : A Gangster Love Story (Keisha & Trigga : A Gangster Love Story))
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And now according to Queen, Mase had promised to deliver his body to her the same night that the homeless couple had been killed in his hotel room.
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Leo Sullivan (Keisha & Trigga 2 : A Gangster Love Story (Keisha & Trigga : A Gangster Love Story))
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His nerves were bad as hell because Mase was gone so he had no way of getting at Queen and no idea if she thought he was dead
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Leo Sullivan (Keisha & Trigga 2 : A Gangster Love Story (Keisha & Trigga : A Gangster Love Story))
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There was Queen, the friend, mother and wife, and then there was Queen the head of The Queen’s Cartel.
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Leo Sullivan (Keisha & Trigga 4: A Gangster Love Story (Keisha & Trigga: A Gangster Love Story))
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Out of the two, Dre was the one Trigga knew best and worked with the most. In fact, Dre was the reason that he even worked with Queen to begin with.
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Leo Sullivan (Keisha & Trigga 4: A Gangster Love Story (Keisha & Trigga: A Gangster Love Story))
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That said, Trigga also knew that Dre and Queen had a very hard rule: Dre never came against Queen’s decisions when it came to how she managed The Queen’s Cartel, unless it dealt with something concerning the safety of her or their children.
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Leo Sullivan (Keisha & Trigga 4: A Gangster Love Story (Keisha & Trigga: A Gangster Love Story))
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When Keisha glanced back over to Queen, her entire countenance had changed. The threatening gaze was gone and was replaced by one of pleasure and awe, as she peeked over Trigga’s shoulder and stared at Cameron.
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Leo Sullivan (Keisha & Trigga 4: A Gangster Love Story (Keisha & Trigga: A Gangster Love Story))
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Lloyd had thought with Sergio dead that Queen was satisfied, but he should have known that she wasn’t.
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Leo Sullivan (Keisha & Trigga : A Gangster Love Story)
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We are perhaps most clearly invited or instructed to compare Cyrus and Socrates by the parallel stories of Panthea and Theodote. When Cyrus was urged by the friend to whom he had entrusted her care to have a look at Panthea, an extremely beautiful captive queen, Cyrus refused out of fear that her beauty would make him so desirous of continuing to look at her that he would neglect what he had to do. When Socrates, on the other hand, was informed of the presence in town of Theodote, a woman whose beauty, according to Socrates’ informant, was too great for words to describe, Socrates replied, “Then we must go have a look, for it is not possible for those who [merely] hear to learn what is too great for words to describe.” There was no danger of Socrates’ being kept from his daily activity by desire to continue to look at Theodote.
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Leo Strauss (History of Political Philosophy)