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The greatness of Shakespeare
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The English Renaissance
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The Victorian literature
The Victorian literature, a complete article about the most famous authors, writers, novelists, poets and essayists of this great period of vitality and expansion. The 19th century was a period of great …
Self-help great quotes
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Three men in a boat
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The reason it’s worth standing up for punctuation is not that it’s an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have attacks of the vapours when they see …