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Words From the Masters List

Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
British writer and politician

Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)
English philosopher and statesman

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian

Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667)
English poet and essayist

Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
German polymath

Goldsmith, Oliver (1728-1774)
Anglo-Irish poet, novelist, playwright, and hack writer

Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)
English essayist, poet, and antiquarian

Mabie, Hamilton Wright (1846-1916)
American essayist, editor, critic, and lecturer

Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844-1990)
German philosopher

Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Anglo-Irish writer, playwright and politician

Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
English Romantic Poet
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