{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_02_ii: Let it be thy earnest and", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_26c172d96279", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_02_ii: Let it be thy earnest and incessant care as a Roman and a man to perform what...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Let it be thy earnest and incessant care as a Roman and a man to perform whatsoever it is that thou art about, with true and unfeigned gravity, natural affection, freedom and justice: and as for all o"}, {"id": "card_n_8363b9e09e26", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_05_v: No man can admire thee for thy sharp acute language, such is thy natural disa...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "No man can admire thee for thy sharp acute language, such is thy natural disability that way. 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