Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
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Following a succesful hunting partnership, the Lion explains how the spoils are to be divided.
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The English ‘Cato’ cautioned that sabre-rattling sanctions and other forms of coercion are never in the country’s economic interest.
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Roman statesman Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus was thrust out the City for his hardline politics, but he did not stay away for long.
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Charles Dickens laments William the Conqueror’s brutal rampage through rebellious Durham and Yorkshire.
Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
At first, John Milton struggled to come to terms with the loss of his eyesight.
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Three servants are engaged to invest their master’s money in the markets.