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193
A Dream of Independence John Bright

In 1877, John Bright told a meeting of the Manchester India Association that he had wanted to put India on the path to independence nearly twenty years before.

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194
A Eulogy for Sir Lancelot Sir Thomas Malory

Sir Ector, who has searched fruitlessly for his brother for seven years, finds him at last, lying in state in the Joyous Gard.

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195
A European Fraud Fyodor Dostoevsky

Dostoevsky had to break it to Moscow’s students that ordinary Russians found their brand of politics patronising.

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196
A False Economy Samuel Smiles

Thomas Telford told the parish council of St Chad’s Church in Shrewsbury that their leaky roof was the last thing they should worry about.

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197
A Farewell Charles Kingsley

A last goodbye breathes promise of a merry meeting.

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198
A Fatal Slip Andrew Lang

Prince Agib hears the tale of a boy confined to an underground chamber for forty days, and dismisses it as superstition.

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