Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
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Germany felt she had a right to an empire like Britain’s, and she was willing to get it at the expense of her neighbours.
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The ancient Greek King knew victory had cost his army more than it could afford to lose.
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A young monk was rewarded for taking his duties as guest-master seriously.
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Cicero warns those who seek power through civic unrest that they will never be the beneficiaries of it.
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The Church, mother Nature and free markets had almost done for slavery at home when colonies in the New World brought it back.
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Fatherless teenage tearaway Fowell Buxton was not a promising boy, but the Gurney family changed all that.