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Authors 1 till 50 of 50.

• Buzz Aldrin
  American former astronaut, engineer and fighter  137
• Aristotle
  Greek philosopher 384 v.C. - 322 v.C. 165
• Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman 1561-1626 188
• James Baldwin
  American writer 1924-1987 120
• Henry Ward Beecher
  American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker 1813-1887 130
• Ambrose Bierce
  American writer 1842-1914 232
• Samuel Butler
  English poet 1835-1902 131
• Lord George Byron
  English poet 1788-1824 207
• Albert Camus
  French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) 1913-1960 134
• Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus 1795-1881 229
• Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  English writer 1874-1936 183
• Winston Churchill
  English statesman 1874-1965 192
• Marcus Tullius Cicero
  Roman statesman and writer 106 v.C. - 43 v.C. 141
• Benjamin Disraeli
  English statesman and writer 1804-1881 174
• Bob Dylan
  American musician 1941- 125
• Albert Einstein
  German - American physicist 1879-1955 268
• George Eliot
  English writer and poet 1819-1880 160
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher 1803-1882 593
• Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist 1706-1790 250
• Mahatma Gandhi
  Indian politician 1869-1948 124
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  German writer and poet 1749-1832 321
• William Hazlitt
  English writer 1778-1830 140
• Eric Hoffer
  American writer 1902-1983 130
• Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet 1809-1894 139
• Horace
  Roman poet  123
• Elbert Hubbard
  American writer and publisher 1859-1915 121
• Aldous Huxley
  English writer 1894-1963 290
• Samuel Johnson
  English writer 1709-1784 385
• Carl Gustav Jung
  Swiss psychiatrist 1875-1961 129
• C. S. Lewis
  Irish novelist and poet 1898-1963 134
• G. C. Lichtenberg
  German writer and physicist 1742-1799 121
• Abraham Lincoln
  American statesman 1809-1865 218
• Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic 1880-1956 169
• Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
  French essayist and philosopher 1533-1592 136
• Friedrich Nietzsche
  German poet and philosopher 1844-1900 181
• George Orwell
  English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) 1903-1950 178
• Camille Paglia
  American academic and social critic 1947- 154
• Blaise Pascal
  French mathematician, physicist and philosopher 1623-1662 162
• Alexander Pope
  English poet 1688-1744 155
• Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  French writer 1613-1680 176
• John Ruskin
  English art critic 1819-1900 133
• Bertrand Russell
  English philosopher and mathematician 1872-1970 164
• Carl Sagan
  American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author 1934-1996 139
• Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright 5 v.C. - 65 n.C. 182
• William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet 1564-1616 536
• George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic 1856-1950 545
• Henry David Thoreau
  American writer 1817-1862 282
• Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 1835-1910 384
• Voltaire
  French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) 1694-1778 132
• Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer 1854-1900 517

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