Alan Wilson Watts (born January 6, 1915, Chislehurst, England – died November 16, 1973, Mill Valley, California, U.S.) was a British philosopher, writer, and...
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François de La Rochefoucauld (born September 15, 1613, Paris, France – died March 17, 1680, Paris, France) was a French writer and moralist renowned...
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William Butler Yeats (born June 13, 1865, Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland—died January 28, 1939, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France), known as W. B. Yeats, was an Irish poet,...
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Germaine de Staël (born April 22, 1766, Paris, France – died July 14, 1817, Paris, France), orig. Anne Louise Germaine Necker was a French-Swiss...
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Henrik Ibsen (born March 20, 1828, Skien, Norway – died May 23, 1906, Kristiania [now Oslo], Norway) was a Norwegian playwright and poet who...
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Michel de Montaigne (born February 28, 1533, Château de Montaigne, near Bordeaux, France – died September 23, 1592, Château de Montaigne, France) was a...
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Alexandre Dumas (born July 24, 1802, Villers-Cotterêts, France – died December 5, 1870, Dieppe, France) was one of the most prolific and read French...
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John Keats (born October 31, 1795, London, England – died February 23, 1821, Rome, Italy) was an English Romantic poet known for sensuous appeal...
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Ayn Rand (born February 2, 1905, in St. Petersburg, Russia – died March 6, 1982, in New York City, U.S.), original name Alissa Zinovievna...
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Jack London (born January 12, 1876, San Francisco, California, U.S. – died November 22, 1916, Glen Ellen, California, U.S.), pseudonym of John Griffith Chaney,...
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George Eliot, pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans (born November 22, 1819, in Warwickshire, England – died December 22, 1880, in London, England), was an...
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Robert Louis Stevenson, full name Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson, (born November 13, 1850, Edinburgh, Scotland – died December 3, 1894, Vailima, Samoa) was a...
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