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2047
Who’ll Turn the Grindstone? Charles Miner

Whenever Charles Miner suspected an ulterior motive, he would say quietly ‘That man has an axe to grind!’

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2048
Who Would True Valour See John Bunyan

Mr Valiant-for-Truth reflects on what is needed for a Christian on the way to his reward.

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2049
Why Rome Persecuted the Christians Jacobus de Voragine

If only the primitive Christians had filled in the right forms and said that one man’s god is as good as another’s, they wouldn’t have had to die.

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2050
Why We Study the Classics Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling believed that a better appreciation of ancient Greece and Rome could help the English be less insular.

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2051
Wilberforce Contra Mundum John Wesley

John Wesley wrote to a young William Wilberforce to encourage him in his campaign against the slave trade.

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2052
Wild Goose Chase Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott warned that schoolchildren must not expect to be entertained all the time.

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