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In The Foolish Dictionary

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Gideon Wurdz and Charles Wayland Towne

"The Foolish Dictionary" was written by "Gideon Wurdz" (the pen name for Charles Wayland Towne) and was published in 190…

I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed

In Short Poetry Collection 012

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Emily Dickinson

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 012: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Preface

In Relativity: The Special and General Theory

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Albert Einstein

This is an introduction to Einstein’s space-bending, time-stretching theory of Relativity, written by the master himself. Special and Genera…

Chapter 08

In Candide

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Voltaire

Candide, ou l’Optimisme, (“Candide, or Optimism”) (1759) is a picaresque novel by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. Voltaire never ope…

Federalist No. 22 by Alexander Hamilton

In The Federalist Papers

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Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison and James Madison

The Federalist Papers (correctly known as The Federalist) are a series of 85 articles advocating the ratification of the United States Const…

Version 8

In Danse Russe

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William Carlos Williams

Williams spent his life as a doctor practicing pediatric medicine in northern New Jersey, a few miles west of New York City. During the work…

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In Art and Heart

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

This special poetry collection was assembled to celebrate the first anniversary of the creation of LibriVox. LibriVox volunteers bring you 3…

Chapter 26

In Sense and Sensibility

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Jane Austen

The two eldest Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, one of whom (Elinor) embraces practicality and restraint while the other (Marianne) gi…