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  • Jessica, I just searched "valenti" in Amazon books and your titles came up as the first four results.

    Amazon Fail: Certain "adult" books (like mine) are de-ranked - Feministing 2009

  • Ben veggio, che il ver dicevano que valenti uomini in Capsa, che il servire a Dio era cosí dolce cosa, e per certo io non mi ricordo, che mai alcuna altra ne facessi, che di tanto diletto, e piacere mi fosse, quanto è il rimettere il diavolo in inferno; e perciò giudico ogn 'altra persona, che ad altro che a servire a Dio attende, essere una bestia.

    The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

  • e.g., the valenti controversy, the clinton pajamas commercial, the clinton sopranos commercial, the jindal speech, the begoggled padilla, and the post on that poor sap who was shot to death in the london underground which first brought me here.

    "Why Do Liberals Hate Ann Althouse?" Ann Althouse 2009

  • : “In pugna pugilum et gladiatorum, plerumque non quia fortis est, vincit quis, aut quia non potest vinci; sed quoniam ille qui victus est, nullis viribus fuit: adeo idem ille victor bene valenti postea comparatus, etiam superatus recedit.

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

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