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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 Mary Wollstonecraft
IN the present state of society it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths,...
by Ray Bradbury
One minute it was Ohio winter, with doors closed, windows locked, the panes blind with frost, icicles fringing every roo...
by Sir Walter Scott
In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large fo...
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
"THIS is the story that Miguel de Cervantes, Spaniard, published in 1605, which the world has been reading again and aga...
by William Strunk, Jr., E. B. White
Follow this rule whatever the final consonant.
by John Bunyan
AS I WALKED through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den, and laid me down in that...
by Gustave Flaubert
WE were in the prep-room when the Head came in, followed by a new boy in mufti and a beadle carrying a big desk.
by Jane Austen
IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
by Benjamin Franklin
"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.
by Niccolò Machiavelli
ALL THE STATES and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedom...
by Thomas More
THERE was recently a rather serious difference of opinion between that great expert in the art of government, His Invinc...
by Πλάτων
Je ne sais trop, Atheniens, quel effet mes accusateurs ont pu produire sur vous.
by Church of England, J. A. Maurault
Where at the Death of our late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth, there remained one uniform order of Common Service,...
by Vatsyāyana
In the beginning, the Lord of Beings created men and women, and in the form of commandments in one hundred thousand chap...
by Jerome Klapka Jérôme
Three Invalids-Sufferings of George and Harris.
by Όμηρος
AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...