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Abraham Lincoln
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Aesop
Fables
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6th c. BC
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Fables
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Fables
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Fables
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Fables
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6th c. BC
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Fables
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6th c. BC
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Albert Einstein
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1920s
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Albert Einstein
Interview
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1929
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Albert Schweitzer
Lectures
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1920s
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Anne Frank
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Arabian proverb
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Aristotle
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Aristotle
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c. 340 BC
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Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics
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c. 340 BC
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Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics
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c. 340 BC
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Aristotle
Politics
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c. 350 BC
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Politics
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c. 350 BC
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Benjamin Disraeli
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Benjamin Disraeli
Vivian Grey
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1826
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Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
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18th c.
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Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanack
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1748
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Poor Richard's Almanack
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1737
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Poor Richard's Almanack
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1757
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Poor Richard's Almanack
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1750
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Poor Richard's Almanack
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1757
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Bhagavad Gita
Bhagavad Gita
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c. 200 BC
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Bhagavad Gita
Bhagavad Gita II.20
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c. 200 BC
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Bhagavad Gita
Bhagavad Gita II.47
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c. 200 BC
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Bhagavad Gita
Bhagavad Gita VI.5
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c. 200 BC
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Blaise Pascal
Pensées
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1670
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Blaise Pascal
Pensées
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1670
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Blaise Pascal
Pensées
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1670
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Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy
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524 AD
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Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy
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524 AD
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Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy
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524 AD
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Buddhist saying
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Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre
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1847
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Cicero
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1st c. BC
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Cicero
Letters to Atticus
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c. 49 BC
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Cicero
Philippics
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44 BC
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Cicero
Pro Plancio
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54 BC
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Cleanthes
quoted by Seneca, Letters to Lucilius
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c. 65 AD
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Confucius
Analects
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c. 500 BC
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Confucius
Analects
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c. 500 BC
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Confucius
Analects
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c. 500 BC
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Confucius
Analects
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c. 500 BC
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Confucius
Analects I
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c. 500 BC
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Confucius
Analects II
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c. 500 BC
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Confucius
Analects XIV
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c. 500 BC
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Confucius
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c. 500 BC
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Confucius
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c. 500 BC
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Confucius
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c. 500 BC
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Confucius
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Confucius
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c. 500 BC
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Confucius
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c. 500 BC
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Confucius
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c. 500 BC
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Confucius
The Analects, Book II.15
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c. 5th century BC
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Confucius
The Analects, Book II.24
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c. 5th century BC
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Confucius
The Analects, Book XV.21
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c. 5th century BC
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Confucius
The Analects, Book XV.24
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c. 5th century BC
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Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights
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1847
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Emily Dickinson
Poems
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1891
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Emily Dickinson
Poems
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1891
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Emily Dickinson
Poems
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1891
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English proverb
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Epictetus
Discourses
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c. 108 AD
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Discourses
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c. 108 AD
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Epictetus
Discourses
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c. 108 AD
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Epictetus
Discourses
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c. 108 AD
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Epictetus
Enchiridion
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c. 125 AD
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Epictetus
Enchiridion
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c. 125 AD
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Epictetus
Enchiridion, I
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c. 125 AD
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Enchiridion, V
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c. 125 AD
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Enchiridion, VIII
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c. 125 AD
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Enchiridion, XI
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c. 125 AD
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Enchiridion, XIX
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c. 125 AD
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Enchiridion, XX
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c. 125 AD
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Epictetus
Enchiridion, XXXIII
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c. 125 AD
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Epicurus
Fragments
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c. 300 BC
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Epicurus
Principal Doctrines
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c. 300 BC
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Florence Nightingale
Notes on Nursing
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1859
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Florence Nightingale
Notes on Nursing
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1859
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Francis Bacon
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17th c.
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Francis Bacon
Meditationes Sacrae
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1597
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Francis Bacon
Of Goodness
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1625
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Francis Bacon
Of Innovations
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1625
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Frederick Douglass
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19th c.
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Frederick Douglass
West India Emancipation speech
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1857
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Twilight of the Idols
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1889
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Twilight of the Idols
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1889
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
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1880
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot
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1869
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George Eliot
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19th c.
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George Eliot
Middlemarch
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1872
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George Eliot
Middlemarch
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1872
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H. Jackson Brown Sr. tradition
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early 20th c.
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Hafiz
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14th c.
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Hafiz
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14th c.
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Helen Keller
Optimism
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1903
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Optimism
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1903
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Optimism
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1903
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Optimism
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1903
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Helen Keller
The Open Door
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1929
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Helen Keller
The Story of My Life
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1903
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Henry David Thoreau
Letters
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1855
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Henry David Thoreau
Walden
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1854
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Walden
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1854
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Walden
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1854
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Walden
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1854
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Walden
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1854
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Henry David Thoreau
Walden
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1854
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Henry David Thoreau
Walden, Economy
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1854
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Henry David Thoreau
Walden, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
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1854
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Psalm of Life
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1838
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hyperion
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1839
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Ladder of St. Augustine
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1858
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Rainy Day
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1842
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Heraclitus
Fragments
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c. 500 BC
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Heraclitus
Fragments
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c. 500 BC
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Heraclitus
Fragments
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c. 500 BC
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Fragments
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c. 500 BC
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Fragments
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c. 500 BC
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Horace
Odes I.11
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23 BC
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Horace
Satires
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c. 35 BC
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Inscription at Delphi
recorded by Pausanias, Description of Greece
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2nd c. AD
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Inscription at Delphi
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2nd c. AD
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Jane Austen
Emma
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1815
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Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
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1813
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Pride and Prejudice
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1813
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract
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1762
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust (rendering)
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1808
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Maxims and Reflections
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1833
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Maxims and Reflections
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1833
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
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1796
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John A. Shedd
Salt from My Attic
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1928
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John Lubbock
The Use of Life
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1894
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Kahlil Gibran
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1920s
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Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet
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1923
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The Prophet
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1923
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The Prophet
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1923
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The Prophet
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1923
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The Prophet
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1923
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Lao Tzu
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c. 400 BC
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c. 400 BC
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c. 400 BC
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c. 400 BC
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Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching
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c. 400 BC
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Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching, ch. 33
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c. 400 BC
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Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching, ch. 33
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c. 400 BC
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Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching, ch. 44
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c. 400 BC
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Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching, ch. 63
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c. 400 BC
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Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching, ch. 63
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c. 400 BC
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Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching, ch. 64
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c. 400 BC
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Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching, ch. 67
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c. 400 BC
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Tao Te Ching, ch. 78
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c. 400 BC
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Laozi
Tao Te Ching, Chapter 33
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c. 4th century BC
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Laozi
Tao Te Ching, Chapter 63
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c. 4th century BC
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Laozi
Tao Te Ching, Chapter 64
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c. 4th century BC
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Tao Te Ching, Chapter 78
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c. 4th century BC
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Leo Tolstoy
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19th c.
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Leo Tolstoy
Pamphlets
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1900
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Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
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1869
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Louis Pasteur
Address
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1876
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Louis Pasteur
Lecture
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1854
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Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
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c. 170 AD
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Meditations
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Meditations
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Meditations
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Meditations
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c. 170 AD
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Meditations
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c. 170 AD
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Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
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c. 170 AD
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Marcus Aurelius
Meditations, Book II.1
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Marcus Aurelius
Meditations, Book IV.3
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Marcus Aurelius
Meditations, Book IV.49
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Meditations, Book IV.7
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Marcus Aurelius
Meditations, Book IX.35
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Marcus Aurelius
Meditations, Book V.1
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c. 170 AD
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Meditations, Book V.16
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c. 170 AD
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Meditations, Book V.20
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c. 170 AD
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Marcus Aurelius
Meditations, Book VIII.50
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c. 170 AD
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Marie Curie
Lecture
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1920
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Mark Twain
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19th c.
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19th c.
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19th c.
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Mark Twain
Pudd'nhead Wilson
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1894
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Michel de Montaigne
Essays
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1580
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Essays
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1580
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Essays
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1580
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Essays
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1580
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Essays
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1580
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Michel de Montaigne
Essays
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1580
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Michel de Montaigne
Essays, Book I, Chapter 20
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1580
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Michel de Montaigne
Essays, Book III, Chapter 13
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1588
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Oscar Wilde
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19th c.
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Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere's Fan
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1892
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Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest
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1895
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Oscar Wilde
The Soul of Man Under Socialism
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1891
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Ovid
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c. 8 AD
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Ovid
Epistulae ex Ponto
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c. 13 AD
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Philo of Alexandria
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1st c. AD
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Plato
Apology, 38a
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c. 399 BC
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Plato
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c. 375 BC
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Plato
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c. 375 BC
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Plato
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c. 375 BC
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Plato
Phaedo
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c. 360 BC
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Plato
The Republic
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c. 375 BC
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Plutarch
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c. 100 AD
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Plutarch
Moralia
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c. 100 AD
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Plutarch
Moralia
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c. 100 AD
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Plutarch
Moralia
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c. 100 AD
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Book of Hours
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1905
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet
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1929
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet
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1929
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet
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1929
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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1841
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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19th c.
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19th c.
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19th c.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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19th c.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Circles
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1841
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Letters
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1854
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Reliance
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1841
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Reliance
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1841
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Reliance, Essays, First Series
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1841
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Reliance, Essays, First Series
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1841
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Robert Frost
A Servant to Servants
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1914
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New Hampshire
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1923
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The Road Not Taken
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1916
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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19th c.
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Virginibus Puerisque
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1881
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If—
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1910
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Speech
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1923
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Rumi
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13th c.
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Rumi
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13th c.
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Rumi
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13th c.
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Rumi
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13th c.
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Rumi
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13th c.
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Rumi
Masnavi
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13th c.
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Saint Augustine
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5th c.
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Saint Augustine
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5th c.
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Saint Augustine
Confessions
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398 AD
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Saint Francis de Sales
Letters
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c. 1610
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Seneca
Letters to Lucilius
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c. 65 AD
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Letters to Lucilius
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c. 65 AD
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Letters to Lucilius
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c. 65 AD
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Letters to Lucilius
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c. 65 AD
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Letters to Lucilius
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c. 65 AD
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Letters to Lucilius
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c. 65 AD
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Seneca
Letters to Lucilius
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c. 65 AD
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Letters to Lucilius
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c. 65 AD
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Seneca
Moral Essays
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c. 60 AD
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Seneca
Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter CVII
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c. 64 AD
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Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter II
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c. 65 AD
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Seneca
Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter LXIII
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c. 64 AD
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Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter LXXVIII
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c. 64 AD
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Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter XIII
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c. 65 AD
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Seneca
On Anger, Book II.29
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c. 45 AD
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Seneca
On the Shortness of Life, III
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c. 49 AD
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Socrates
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c. 400 BC
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c. 400 BC
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Plato, Apology
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c. 399 BC
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Plato, Theaetetus
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c. 369 BC
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Sun Tzu
The Art of War
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5th c. BC
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The Art of War
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5th c. BC
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The Art of War
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5th c. BC
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The Art of War
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5th c. BC
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Tao saying
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The Dhammapada
Dhammapada
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Dhammapada I
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c. 3rd c. BC
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Dhammapada I
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c. 3rd c. BC
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Dhammapada IX
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c. 3rd c. BC
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Dhammapada VIII
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c. 3rd c. BC
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Dhammapada XVII
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c. 3rd c. BC
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt
Speech
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1901
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Theodore Roosevelt
The Strenuous Life
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1899
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Thomas à Kempis
The Imitation of Christ
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1418
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The Imitation of Christ
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1418
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The Imitation of Christ
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1418
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Traditional Indian saying
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Vincent van Gogh
Letters to Theo
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1882
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Letters to Theo
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1882
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Letters to Theo
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1884
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Letters to Theo
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1889
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Virgil
Aeneid, Book X
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19 BC
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Virgil
Eclogues X
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37 BC
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Voltaire
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18th c.
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Candide
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1759
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Dictionnaire philosophique
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1764
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Letters
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1770
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Philosophical Dictionary
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1764
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Walt Whitman
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19th c.
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Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
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1855
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Song of Myself
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1855
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William Shakespeare
All's Well That Ends Well
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1605
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Hamlet, Act I
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1603
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Hamlet, Act II
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1603
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Hamlet, Act IV
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1603
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Julius Caesar, Act I
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1599
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King Lear, Act I
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1606
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Macbeth, Act IV
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1606
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Measure for Measure
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1604
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Othello, Act II
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1604
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
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1602
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Zen proverb
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Zeno of Citium
as reported by Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
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3rd c. AD
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