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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…

Illusions, Part 1

In On the Witness Stand: Essays on Psychology and Crime

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Hugo Münsterberg

Eight sketches by one of the pioneers of applied psychology, which highlight the mind of the witness on the witness stand, and how one can b…

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…

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 …

V. Wealth and Its Uses

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…

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…

Chapter VIII - The Motor Afloat , part 1

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…