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William Blake

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?

Or wilt thou go ask the Mole:

Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod?

Or Love in a golden bowl?

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One who, or that which, accelerates.

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Père Goriot
Literary Fiction1835Free

Père Goriot

by Honoré de Balzac

Old Goriot sacrifices everything for daughters who take his money and abandon him — Balzac's tragedy of paternal love and Parisian ambition.

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103,607

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~8h read

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