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A Tale Worth All His Fortune
By William Cobbett
William Cobbett recalls his first taste of classic literature, for which he had to go without his supper.
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A Victim of His Success
By Richard Burdon Haldane
Economist Adam Smith so changed the conversation in Britain that most people take his groundbreaking insights for granted.
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Sir William Keeps a Prior Engagement
As told to H. A. Bruce
Sir William Napier stopped to console an unhappy little girl, and made her a promise he did not find it easy to keep.
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Press Agents
By William Thomas Stead
When Lord Salisbury asked the Russian Minister of the Interior how many agents the Tsar had in India, the reply came as a shock.
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Playing with Fire
William Stead warned his fellow-journalists to take care that their bellicose rhetoric did not end in a real war with Russia.
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The Man who Made the Headlines
By Clay Lane
William Stead conceived modern print journalism in the belief that newspapers could change the world.
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