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Adam Smith - Theory of Moral Sentiments (First Edition)
«How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortunes of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from...
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Eliza P. Donner Houghton - Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate
The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the «westering fever» of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846–1847, some of the emigrants...
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Ballads
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Chrétien de Troyes - Yvain, or the Knight with the Lion
Yvain, the Knight of the Lion is a romance by Chrétien de Troyes. It was probably written in the 1170s simultaneously with Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, and includes several references to the action in that poem....
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Sigmund Freud - Reflections on War and Death
Anyone, as Freud tells us in Reflections on War and Death , forced to react against his own impulses may be described as a hypocrite, whether he is conscious of it or not. One might even venture to assert—it is still...
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Poetry
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William Shakespeare - Shakespeare's Sonnets (version 3)
Shakespeare’s Sonnets , or simply The Sonnets , comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. The poems were...
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