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Maxims 291-300

In The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Read by Sonrisa Jones


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…

Just a Boy

In Rhymes of Childhood

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Edgar A. Guest


Not nursery rhymes, but poems about different scenes of childhood. Poems about Grandpa, Grandma, story time, castor oil, “Wait till your pa …

Among Our Exchanges

In The American Bee Journal, Vol. XVII, No. 1, January 5, 1881

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Various


The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in 1861 devoted to scientific bee-culture and the production and sa…

Aphorisms by J. M. Gottesman

In Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 6, August 1906

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Various


Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature&qu…

The Lady of the Pool Chapter 1 A Firm Believer

In Comedies of Courtship

Read by Tim Jones


Anthony Hope


A series of short stories about love and the process of courtship. - Summary by Michele Eaton

Recent Progress in Gas Engineering, Part 2

In Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887

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Various


The Scientific American may be the oldest continuously published periodical in the United States, having launched its first publication in 1…

Origin and Nature of Honey Dew

In The American Bee Journal, Vol. I, No. 2, February 1861

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Various


The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in 1861 devoted to scientific bee-culture and the production and sa…

The Passing of Cesare, by Helen Pitkin

In The Black Cat Vol. 04 No. 01 October 1898

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Various


The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…

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