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by Benjamin Franklin
"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.
by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet
Le premier lundi du mois d’avril 1625, le bourg de Meung, où naquit l’auteur du Roman de la Rose, semblait être da...
by William Shakespeare
1.1 On board a ship carrying King Alonso of Naples and his entourage, a boatswain directs the crew to fight a great stor...
by Ray Bradbury
One minute it was Ohio winter, with doors closed, windows locked, the panes blind with frost, icicles fringing every roo...
by Immanuel Kant
That all our knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt.
by George R. R. Martin
“We should start back,” Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them.
by Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont
AFTER the birth of a human being, his early years are obscurely spent in the toils or pleasures of childhood.
by Aristotle
EVERY STATE is a community of some kind, and every community is established with a view to some good; for mankind always...
by James Fenimore Cooper
IT WAS a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be...
by Лев Толстой
"Eh bien, mon prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now no more than family estates of the Bonapartes.
by Frantz Fanon
Não há muito tempo, a terra estava povoada por dois biliões de habitantes, isto é, quinhentos milhões de homens e mil e ...
by Henri Charrière
IT WAS A KNOCKOUT BLOW-a punch so overwhelming that I didn't get back on my feet for fourteen years.
by Guy de Maupassant
Taking the change for his five-franc piece from the woman behind the till, Duroy left the restaurant.
by Rick Riordan
The last thing I wanted to do on my summer break was blow up another school.