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Mary Shelley
An English novelist whose fiction explores creation, responsibility, isolation, and the desire for companionship.
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Kahlil Gibran
A Lebanese-American poet and artist whose English prose poetry explores love, work, freedom, and human connection.
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Rabindranath Tagore
A Bengali poet and writer whose work explores nature, love, freedom, and spiritual experience.
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Mary Wollstonecraft
An English writer and thinker who argued for womenβs education, rational independence, and equal dignity.
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George Eliot
An English novelist whose fiction examines sympathy, ambition, marriage, and the consequences of ordinary choices.
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Louisa May Alcott
An American novelist whose fiction explores family, work, artistic ambition, and moral growth.
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Helen Keller
An American author and advocate who wrote about learning, language, friendship, and life as a deafblind person.
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Frederick Douglass
An American abolitionist, writer, and orator who described his experience of enslavement and the pursuit of freedom.
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William Shakespeare
An English playwright and poet whose works explore human desire, conflict, imagination, and change.
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Oscar Wilde
An Irish writer known for plays, fiction, criticism, and provocative epigrams.
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Epictetus
A Stoic teacher whose teachings were recorded and compiled by his student Arrian.
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Laozi
The traditional attribution for the Dao De Jing; the textβs composition and historical authorship are debated.
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Benjamin Franklin
An American writer, printer, inventor, and public figure who published Poor Richardβs Almanack.
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Henry David Thoreau
An American writer and naturalist whose work examines deliberate living and personal conscience.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
An American essayist and lecturer associated with Transcendentalism and independent thought.
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Marcus Aurelius
A Roman emperor and Stoic writer whose private reflections examine duty, judgment, and the conduct of daily life.
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Jane Austen
An English novelist whose social comedies examine character, judgment, and the pressures of everyday life.
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Lewis Carroll
An English writer and mathematician whose fiction plays with logic, language, and the unexpected.
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