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His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police.
Victor Hugo • Les Misérables (English language)
Thorin Oakenshield
J. R. R. Tolkien • The Hobbit (Enhanced Edition): The Classic Bestselling Fantasy Novel
JAMES J. Hill ranks among the great organizers and managers of the American West. Born in Canada in 1838, Hill moved nearly two decades later to the Twin Cities, where he quickly exhibited the tireless energy and foresight that characterized his entire career. By his early forties he had helped organize major new transportation systems in Canada
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Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
Steven Wilson
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The Lively was a fine example, an admirable example, of the Whiggish state of mind at its best; and Jack was a Tory. He admired her, but it was with a detached admiration, as though he were in charge of a brother-officer’s wife, an elegant, chaste, unimaginative woman, running her life on scientific principles.
Patrick O'Brian • HMS Surprise
What Donovan meant was that after Groton and Harvard, Franklin had enormous confidence in himself—perhaps overconfidence—and he never let law school interfere with his personal life.