Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
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A giant gets angry when he finds children playing in his garden.
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Pygmalion discovered that prudishness is not the same as purity.
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A tale of two friends with complete confidence in each other, and loyal to the death.
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Alexander fulfilled the letter of a prophecy and he did become ruler of the world, but it wasn’t quite fair.
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An ancient Greek myth about the dangers of easy wealth.
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Alice experiences for herself the very definition of a pointless exercise.