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Tao Te Ching
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Common Sense
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The Symposium
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Meditations
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The City of Ladies
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Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
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The Grand Inquisitor
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Decline of the English Murder
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The Social Contract
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The Gettysburg Address
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Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
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30 Years Behind Bars: Trials of a Prison Doctor
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Confessions of a Sinner
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The First Ten Books
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A Tale of a Tub
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On Friendship
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Why Look at Animals?
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Night Walks
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A Confession
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Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
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Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid
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Civilization and Its Discontents
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Days of Reading
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Why I Am So Wise
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
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Of Human Freedom
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
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On the Pleasure of Hating
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Nature
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The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion
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The Sickness Unto Death
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The Fastidious Assassins
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On the Suffering of the World
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Travels in the Land of Kubilai Khan
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On Solitude
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An Attack on an Enemy of Freedom
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An Apology for Idlers
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On Suicide
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Anarchist Communism
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Revelation and The Book of Job
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Of the Abuse of Words
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The Perpetual Race of Achilles & the Tortoise
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The Christians and the Fall of Rome
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In Consolation to His Wife
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Great Ideas On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings
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We Will All Go Down Fighting to the End
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On Art and Life
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Great Ideas Writings From the Zen
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Some Anatomies of Melancholy
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An Appeal to the Toiling, Oppressed and Exhausted Peoples of Europe
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Of the Dawn of Freedom
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An Image of Africa / The Trouble with Nigeria
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Conspicuous Consumption
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Urne Burial
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The Future of an Illusion
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An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
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On Power
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Revolution and War
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Man Alone with Himself
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Concerning Violence
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Of Man
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Of Empire
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The Jewish State
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Great Ideas Human Happiness
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The Wolfman
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The Executioner
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The Decay of Lying: And Other Essays
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The Inner Life
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Three Japanese Buddhist Monks
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Bushido: The Soul of Japan
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Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books
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The Evils of Revolution
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Sensation and Sex
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Great Ideas V Nationalism
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The Painter of Modern Life
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Useful Work versus Useless Toil
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One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
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Ain't I a Woman?
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