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Maxims 41-50

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…

The Materialist in the Mask

In G.K. Chesterton's Newspaper Columns: The New Witness - 1922

Read by Lindsay Jones

G. K. Chesterton

A collection of the newspaper columns/essays written by G.K. Chesterton for "The New Witness", under the heading "At the Sign…

The Elephant's Child

In Children's Short Works, Vol. 051

Read by Jonathan Jones

Rudyard Kipling

Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 051: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Aphorisms by J. M. Gottesman

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

Read by Sonrisa Jones

Various

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

The Last Supper

In Short Science Fiction Collection 077

Read by Tom Jones

T. D. Hamm

Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

Book II Chapter 01: A Man of Wealth

In Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress

Read by Chris Jones

Frances Burney

The plot of Cecilia revolves around the heroine, Cecilia Beverley, whose inheritance from her uncle comes with the stipulation that she find…

Chapter IV

In Why We Love Music

Read by Sonrisa Jones

Carl Emil Seashore

Psychologists have not explained why we love music. A technical psychologist indulges in generalizations and predictions in a practical and …

The Dream by Edna St. Vincent Millay

In Dreams Collection 3 - Stories and Poems

Read by Jonathan Jones

Edna St. Vincent Millay

This is a collection of 20 stories and/or poems, contributed by LibriVox volunteers, pertaining to dreams. - Summary by Michele Fry

Among Our Exchanges

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

Read by Sonrisa Jones

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…

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