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JACOB PETRY

"Ideas, rules and principles only serve as tools, which if not used in the right context are useless and can sometimes even work against you."

JACOB PETRY

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Brazilian, I learned english on my own. My aim here's to improve my writing and sharing knowledge from books.

How to understand the hidden rules of the world, to manipulate and not be manipuladed. 32 lessons and 18 quotes, fulled of ancient wisdom, extracted from The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli.

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