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A Most Successful Holiday

By A. G. Gardiner

The best holidays are the ones that make us long for home.

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The Object of a Liberal Education

By Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Huxley believed that if schools did not ground their pupils in common sense, life’s examinations would be painful.

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As I Came Through Sandgate

By John Telford

... I heard John Wesley sing. A visitor on the quayside on Sunday May 30th, 1742, would have stumbled into a crowd agape and a determined clergyman singing psalms.

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Our England is a Garden

By Rudyard Kipling

There is plenty of work in the garden of England for everyone, whether they have a green thumb or not.

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What the Romans Did for Us

By Charles Dickens

The Romans did bring some blessings to Britain, but none so great as the one they did not mean to bring.

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Double Standards

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson wondered why New Yorkers elected to Congress the kind of man they would turn out of their own homes.

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