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Perfection is no Trifle

By Samuel Smiles

Michelangelo had a message for all serious entrepreneurs.

596

The Speech of King Caratacus

By Cornelius Tacitus

A proud British king, taken to Rome as a trophy of Empire, refused to plead for his life.

597

There is No Liberty without Self-Control

By Edmund Burke

Anti-Christian governments don’t make us free, they just impose their own, illiberal morality.

598

Typical Cat!

By P. G. Wodehouse

When a cat comes into your life, resistance is futile.

599

The ‘Raindrop’ Prelude

By Georges Sand

As the storm raged around him, raindrops fell like music on the pianist’s heart.

600

‘I Remember’

By Thomas Hood

A poem of nostalgia tinged with regret.

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