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By Joseph Lange (1751–1831), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
An amateur composer once asked Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart how he thought of his lovely music and — for one performance only — the maestro told him.
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© Otwarte Klatki, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
A pretty young milkmaid plans just a little bit too far ahead.
© Oast House Archive, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Frédéric Bastiat made a tongue-in-cheek appeal to the French government, asking them to protect candlemakers from a cut-throat competitor.
© Evelyn Simak, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Inspired by economists in Britain, Frédéric Bastiat explained to his own Government why their initiatives to boost the economy so often fail.
© Kevin Gordon, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
On a visit to an English parish church, American author Washington Irving was treated to an eye-opening contrast between Georgian society’s Old Money and her New.
From the LSE Women’s Library Collection, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Educational reformer Emily Davies argued that Victorian women had more to offer society than a purely ornamental erudition.