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A Midsummer Night’s Dream Clay Lane

Hermia and her lover Lysander elope from Athens, only to become tangled with squabbling fairies in the woods.

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A Ministering Angel Sir Walter Scott

As Lord Marmion lies dying on Flodden Field, there is no one near to tend him but the woman he has wronged.

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A Monument to Liberty Samuel Smiles

Samuel Smiles explains why the London and Birmingham Railway was an achievement superior to the Great Pyramid of Giza.

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A Moral and Religious People John Adams

John Adams, the second President of the USA, told army officers in Massachusetts that the Constitution he had helped to draw up could not guarantee them liberty.

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A Most Successful Holiday A. G. Gardiner

The best holidays are the ones that make us long for home.

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A Nation of Shopkeepers Napoleon Bonaparte

The great French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte protested that in calling England ‘a nation of shopkeepers’ he had paid us a compliment.

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