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What books did the greatest men of history read?

>> No.21635550

DIY wood teeth carving

>> No.21635551

>>21635526
Probably Plato and Cicero

>> No.21635565

>>21635526
Deez nuts

>> No.21635582

>>21635526
Rate Napoleons library:
Sciences and Arts (e.g., Treatise on Fortifications), Geography and Travels (e.g., Cook’s Voyages), History (e.g., Thucydides, Frederick II), Poetry (e.g., Ossian, Tasso, Ariosto), Novels (e.g., Voltaire, Héloïse, Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther and 40 volumes of “English novels”), and Politics and Morals (the Bible, the Koran, the Vedas, etc.)

>> No.21635591

>>21635582
Apparently he made a big effort to have a meet and greet with an aged Goethe when he invaded Goethe's city. Imagine how weirded out Goethe was

>> No.21635606

>>21635526
Dunno but Finnegans Wake didn't exist yet so who cares lmao. I doubt these games even read Tristram Shandy.

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Custom bibles

>> No.21635711
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>>21635526
Pretty sure Franklin read every book of note available at the time

>> No.21635719

>>21635711
why does he look like he's about to melt?

>> No.21635754

>>21635526
1st. read and applied Castiglione, 2nd. Machiavelli, 3rd. Cassius Dio, and 4th. Frances Hutcheson. You're welcome.

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>>21635591
>your city gets conquered by a skilled general claiming to be the new caesar
>he’s another fucking sorrows of young werther fan and wants to talk to you about it
Lmao