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By Rosser1954 (Roger Griffith), Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
A literary man tries to trick Samuel Johnson into an honest opinion, which was neither necessary nor very rewarding.
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© San Kukai, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Monsieur St Aubert falls seriously ill on a walking tour with his daughter Emily, and before the end asks an unexpected favour.
© Jonathan Billinger, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
A nation with its own laws and a strong sense of shared cultural identity makes good economic sense.
By Domenico Angelo (?1717-1802), Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Andre-Louis Moreau lives for vengeance on the master swordsman who killed his friend.
Anonymous, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
A tribute to the postal workers of British India, and to the kind of empire they helped to build.
By Vasily Vereshchagin, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
It was the opinion of Leo Tolstoy that even Napoleon was never master of his own destiny.