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The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary

by Ambrose Bierce

ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth of power.

1840 312 ed.
Satirae
Satirae

by Horace

The individual poems comprising each book of the Satires are not arranged chronologically in the order of their composit...

1763 115 ed.
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman"
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman"

by Richard Phillips Feynman, Ralph Leighton

WHEN I WAS about eleven or twelve I set up a lab in my house.

1984 45 ed.
Troilus and Cressida
Troilus and Cressida

by William Shakespeare

Eternal reader, you have here a new play, never staled with the stage, never clapperclawed with the palms of the vulgar,...

1609 759 ed.
Odes
Odes

by Horace

Mecene, issu d'aieux royaux, o toi mon appui, toi, ma douce gloire, il y a des hommes dont c'est le plaisir d'avoir, a l...

1635 127 ed.
Satirae
Satirae

by Juvenal

Must I be always a listener only, never hit back, although so often assailed by the hoarse Theseid of Codrus?

1693 38 ed.
The satires
The satires

by Aulus Persius Flaccus, William Barr

1695 7 ed.
The Greek Classics, Vol. 6
The Greek Classics, Vol. 6

by Marion Mills Miller

2017 1 ed.
Horace
Horace

by Horace

CVM tot sustineas et tanta negotia solus, res Italas armis tuteris, moribus ornes, legibus emendes, in publica commoda p...

1652 38 ed.
Pursuits of literature
Pursuits of literature

by Thomas James Mathias

1794 25 ed.
Peter Ibbetson
Peter Ibbetson

by George du Maurier

The writer of this singular autobiography was my cousin, who died at the -Criminal Lunatic Asylum, of which he had been ...

1846 62 ed.
Pericula urbis
Pericula urbis

by William Moore

1870 1 ed.