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徬徨 (Wandering or Pang Huang)

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Xun Lu


Wandering or Pang Huang was Lu Xun's second collection of stories. It was published near the end of 1925 and included 11 stories written bet…

Chapter XXXVIII, Part 1

In The Dream of the Red Chamber Book II

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Xueqin Cao


The Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as The Story of the Stone) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China, and considered the g…

Chapter VI - Internal Combustion Engines

In The Romance of Modern Mechanism

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Archibald Williams


In 1910, when this book was published, the advancement of modern mechanism was still moving at a rapid pace. It must have seemed like very d…

Making Speeches

In A Boys' Life of Booker T. Washington

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Walter Clinton Jackson


Booker T. Washington was one of the first nationally recognized African American leaders after the Civil War. He was born to a slave woman …

BOOK I. CHAP. I.

In Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness.…

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William Godwin


It was Godwin, in his Enquiry concerning Political Justice (2 vols., 1793), who was the first to formulate the political and economical conc…

Maxims 151-160

In The Art of Worldly Wisdom

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Baltasar Gracián


300 short maxims by Spanish Jesuit Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658). The advice is still useful and insightful for our modern world. Gracian was…

IV. How To Win Fortune

In The Empire of Business

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Andrew Carnegie


This collection of essays by Scottish-American steel industrialist Andrew Carnegie, gathered from various periodicals and first published in…