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Charlotte Bronte - Author

Charlotte Brontë

BORN THIS WEEK IN 1816
The human heart has hidden treasures
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Miguel De Cervantes - Author

Miguel de Cervantes

DIED THIS WEEK IN 1616
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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Charles Darwin - Author

Charles Darwin

DIED THIS WEEK IN 1882
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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Henry Fielding - Author

Henry Fielding

BORN THIS WEEK IN 1707
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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John Maynard Keynes - Author

John Maynard Keynes

DIED THIS WEEK IN 1946
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

DIED THIS WEEK IN 1616
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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Bram Stoker - Author

Bram Stoker

DIED THIS WEEK IN 1912
How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
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Robert Tressell - Author

Robert Tressell

BORN THIS WEEK IN 1870
Every man who is not helping to bring about a better state of affairs for the future is helping to perpetuate the present misery.
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Mark Twain - Author

Mark Twain

DIED THIS WEEK IN 1910
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
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Aesop - Author

Aesop

Louisa May Alcott - Author

Louisa May Alcott

Ali Abdullah Yusuf - Author

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen

Aristotle - Author

Aristotle

Jane Austen

Jane Austen

J M Barrie - Author

J.M. Barrie

Frank Baum - Author

L. Frank Baum

Edward Benson - Author

E. F. Benson

R D Blackmore - Author

R.D. Blackmore

Algernon Blackwood

Algernon Blackwood

William Blake - Author

William Blake

Giovanni Boccaccio - Author

Giovanni Boccaccio

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Author

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Anne Bronte - Author

Anne Brontë

Charlotte Bronte - Author

Charlotte Brontë

Emily Bronte - Author

Emily Brontë

Elizabeth Browning Barrett

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

John Buchan - Author

John Buchan

John Bunyan Author

John Bunyan

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Author

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Robert Burns Author

Robert Burns

Lord Byron - Author

Lord Byron

Lewis Carroll - Author

Lewis Carroll

Miguel De Cervantes - Author

Miguel de Cervantes

Robert Chambers - Authors

Robert W. Chambers

Geoffrey Chaucer - Author

Geoffrey Chaucer

Anton Chekhov - Author

Anton Chekhov

Gilbert Keith Chesterton - Author

G.K. Chesterton

Kate Chopin - Author

Kate Chopin

Carl Von Clausewitz - Author

Carl von Clausewitz

William Wilkie Collins - Author

Wilkie Collins

Carlo Collodi - Author

Carlo Collodi

Joseph Conrad - Author

Joseph Conrad

Susan Coolidge - Author

Susan Coolidge

James Fenimore Cooper - Author

James Fenimore Cooper

Alesiter Crowley - Author

Aleister Crowley

Dante - Author

Dante Alighieri

Charles Darwin - Author

Charles Darwin

David Stuart Davies

David Stuart Davies

Daniel Defoe - Author

Daniel Defoe

Rene Descartes - Author

Rene Descartes

Charles Dickens - Author

Charles Dickens

Emily Dickinson - Author

Emily Dickinson

Fyodor Dostoevsky - Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Arthur Conan Doyle - Author

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Alexandre Dumas - Author

Alexandre Dumas

George Eliot - Author

George Eliot

Friedrich Engels - Author

Friedrich Engels

John Meade Falkner - Author

J. Meade Falkner

Henry Fielding - Author

Henry Fielding

Scott Fitzgerald - Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Gustave Flaubert - Author

Gustave Flaubert

Ford Madox Ford - Author

Ford Madox Ford

Sigmund Freud - Author

Sigmund Freud

John Galsworthy - Author

John Galsworthy

Elizabeth Gaskell - Author

Elizabeth Gaskell

Edward Gibbon - Author

Edward Gibbon

Khalil Gibran - Author

Kahlil Gibran

Henry Gilbert

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol

Kenneth Grahame - Author

Kenneth Grahame

Rosemary Grey Author

Rosemary Gray

Grimm Brothers - Author

The Brothers Grimm

George Grossmith - Author

George and Weedon Grossmith

Henry Rider Haggard - Author

Sir Henry Rider Haggard

Radclyffe Hall - Author

Radclyffe Hall

Thomas Hardy - Author

Thomas Hardy

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Author

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

Henry O - Author

O. Henry

Herodotus - Author

Herodotus

Thomas Hobbes - Author

Thomas Hobbes

Homer - Author

Homer

Thomas Hughes - Author

Thomas Hughes

Victor Hugo - Author

Victor Hugo

David Hume - Author

David Hume

Joseph Jacobs - Author

Joseph Jacobs

Henry James - Author

Henry James

Montague Rhodes James - Author

M.R. James

Jerome Klapka Jerome - Author

Jerome K. Jerome

James Joyce - Author

James Joyce

Franz Kafka - Author

Franz Kafka

John Keats - Author

John Keats

John Maynard Keynes - Author

John Maynard Keynes

Charles Kingsley - Author

Charles Kingsley

Rudyard Kipling - Author

Rudyard Kipling

Charles Lamb - Author

Charles and Mary Lamb

Andrew Lang - Author

Andrew Lang

David Herbert Lawrence - Author

D.H. Lawrence

Thomas Edward Lawrence - Author

T.E. Lawrence

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu - Author

Sheridan Le Fanu

Edward Lear - Author

Edward Lear

Gaston Leroux - Author

Gaston Leroux

Matthew Lewis - Author

Matthew Lewis

John Locke - Author

John Locke

Jack London - Author

Jack London

Howard Phillips Lovecraft - Author

H.P. Lovecraft

Terry Lynch

George Macdonald

George MacDonald

Arthur Machen

Arthur Machen

Niccolò Machiavelli - Author

Niccolò Machiavelli

Sir Thomas Malory

Katherine Mansfield - Author

Katherine Mansfield

Marcus Aurelius

Frederick Marryat - Author

Captain Frederick Marryat

Karl Marx - Author

Karl Marx

Guy de Maupassant - Author

Guy de Maupassant

Henry Mayhew - Author

Henry Mayhew

Herman Melville - Author

Herman Melville

Lucy Maud Montgomery - Author

Lucy Montgomery

Thomas More - Author

Sir Thomas More

Hector Hugh Munro - Author

Hector Hugh Munro

Edith Nesbit - Author

E. Nesbit

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Author

Friedrich Nietzsche

George Orwell - Author

George Orwell

Thomas Paine - Author

Thomas Paine

Plato - Author

Plato

Edgar Allan Poe - Author

Edgar Allan Poe

Eleanor Porter - Author

Eleanor H. Porter

Beatrix Potter - Author

Beatrix Potter

Arthur Rackman - Author

Arthur Rackham

Ann Radcliffe - Author

Ann Radcliffe

Christina Rossetti - Author

Christina Rossetti

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

James Malcolm Rymer

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Sir Walter Scott - Author

Sir Walter Scott

Anna Sewell - Author

Anna Sewell

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Mary Shelley - Author

Mary Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Author

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Adam Smith - Author

Adam Smith

Benedict de Spinoza - Benedict de Spinoza

Benedict Spinoza

Johanna Spyri - Author

Johanna Spyri

Flora Annie Steel - Author

Flora Annie Steel

Laurence Sterne - Author

Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson - Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Bram Stoker - Author

Bram Stoker

Harriet Beecher Stowe - Author

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Johnathan Swift - Author

Jonathan Swift

Alfred Tennyson - Author

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

William Makepeace Thackeray - Author

William Makepeace Thackeray

Dylan Thomas Author

Dylan Thomas

Alexis de Tocqueville - Author

Alexis de Tocqueville

Leo Tolstoy - Author

Leo Tolstoy

Robert Tressell - Author

Robert Tressell

Anthony Trollope - Author

Anthony Trollope

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev - Author

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev

Mark Twain - Author

Mark Twain

Lao Tzu - Author

Lao Tzu

Sun Tzu - Author

Sun Tzu

Jules Verne - Author

Jules Verne

Virgil - Author

Virgil

Voltaire - Author

Voltaire

Lewis Wallace - Author

Lew Wallace

Herbert George Wells - Author

H.G. Wells

Edith Wharton - Author

Edith Wharton

Walter Whitman - Author

Walt Whitman

Oscar Wilde - Author

Oscar Wilde

Margery Williams - Author

Margery Williams Bianco

Virginia Woolf - Author

Virginia Woolf

William Wordsworth - Author

William Wordsworth

Shang Yang - Author

Shang Yang

William Yeats - Author

W.B. Yeats

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