» Henry James (1843-1916) American author [American:1843-1915, British:1915-1916]
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» Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist, essayist, satirist and social critic
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» Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) French-Swiss political philosopher and essayist
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» John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) American business magnate and philanthropist
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» Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, and dramatist
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» Lord Byron (1788-1824) British poet and politician
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» Plutarch (46-120) Greek essayist, historian and biographer
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» Seneca (5-65) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, known as Seneca the Younger, son of Seneca the Elder and tutor of Nero
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» Socrates (469-399) Classical Greek philosopher of Athens
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» Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) British novelist, short story writer, and poet
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» Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) Italian economist and sociologist
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» William Cowper (1731-1800) British poet
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» Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist, essayist, satirist and social critic
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» Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) Swiss theologian and poet
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» Josh Billings (1815-1885) American humorist and lecturer
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» Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) Irish writer, dramatist and poet, ['¨Waiting for Godot' Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969]
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» Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) British historian and essayist
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» William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Irish poet, and playwright [Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923]
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