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Abraham Kuyper
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas

Abu Bakr al-Razi (Rhazes)

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

Ada Lovelace
Adam Smith
Adrian Goldsworthy

Aeschylus
Aesop

Agatha Christie

Alan Turing

Albert Camus

Albert Einstein

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay

Alexandre Dumas

Alexis de Tocqueville

Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alice Dalgliesh

Ammianus Marcellinus

Andreas Vesalius

Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang (ed.)

Anna Komnene

Anna Sewell

Anne Brontë

Anonymous
Anonymous (Babylonian; standard version attributed to Sin-leqi-unninni)

Anonymous (Homeric)
Anonymous (Islamic scripture)
Anonymous (K'iche' Maya); Lewis Spence
Anonymous (Middle Welsh)

Anonymous (Old Norse)

Anonymous (attributed to Vyasa)

Anonymous; translated by Edward William Lane
Anthony Kaldellis

Anthony Trollope

Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Anton Chekhov
Apollodorus (attributed)

Apollonius of Rhodes

Apuleius

Archimedes

Aristophanes

Aristotle
Aristotle (attributed)
Arnold Lobel
Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Eddington

Arthur Miller

Arthur Schopenhauer
Athanasius, Jerome and others
Attributed to David

Augustine of Hippo

Aulus Cornelius Celsus
Barbara Pym
Baroness Orczy

Baruch Spinoza
Beatrix Potter

Bede
Benedict XVI

Benedict of Nursia

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Rush

Benvenuto Cellini

Bernard of Clairvaux
Bertolt Brecht

Bertrand Russell

Blaise Pascal
Blanche Fisher Wright (illustrator); traditional rhymes

Boethius
Bonaventure
Booker T. Washington

Bram Stoker

Brother Lawrence

Bruce Chatwin
Bruno Leoni
C. G. Jung

C. S. Lewis
Carl G. Hempel

Carl von Clausewitz
Carlo Collodi

Charles Babbage
Charles Darwin

Charles Dickens
Charles Finney

Charles Kingsley

Charles Lyell

Charles Sanders Peirce

Charles Spurgeon
Charles and Mary Lamb

Charlotte Brontë
Chief Joseph
Chris Wickham

Christiaan Huygens

Claude Bernard
Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Shannon

Claudius Ptolemy
Continental Congress
Continental Congress and United States Constitutional Convention
Corrie ten Boom
Cædmon

D. H. Lawrence
Daniel Defoe
Daniel Webster
Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri; R. W. Church

David Hume

David McCullough

Desiderius Erasmus

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dioscorides

Donald Barthelme
Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Dorothy Parker
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight L. Moody
E. B. White
E. Nesbit

Edgar Allan Poe
Edmond Rostand
Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine
Edmund Spenser

Edward Gibbon

Edward Grim; Benedict of Peterborough; William of Canterbury tradition

Einhard and Notker the Stammerer
Eleanor Estes
Eleanor H. Porter
Elias Lönnrot (compiler)
Elisabeth Elliot

Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth George Speare
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth Janet Gray
Elizabeth Yates
Else Holmelund Minarik
Emil Kraepelin

Emily Brontë

Emily Dickinson

Epictetus
Eric Knight

Eric Metaxas
Erich Maria Remarque

Ernest Hemingway

Ernst Mach

Erwin Schrödinger
Esphyr Slobodkina
Esther Forbes

Euclid
Eugen Bleuler

Eugene O'Neill

Euripides

Eusebius
F. A. Hayek

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Flannery O'Connor
Flavius Josephus

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Francis Bacon

Francis of Assisi; Thomas of Celano; Bonaventure; Brother Ugolino; others
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franz Kafka

François Rabelais
Fred Gipson

Frederick Douglass
Frederick the Great

Friedrich Nietzsche

Frédéric Bastiat

Fyodor Dostoevsky

G. H. Hardy

G. K. Chesterton

G. W. F. Hegel

Galen

Galileo Galilei

Gaston Leroux

Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey de Villehardouin

George Berkeley

George Bernard Shaw
George Boole

George Eliot
George Herbert
George MacDonald

George Mason

George Orwell
George Selden

George Washington

George Whitefield
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Gilbert White

Giorgio Vasari

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Graham Greene
Greg Woolf

Gregor Mendel; William Bateson
Gregory of Nyssa

Guy de Maupassant

H. G. Wells

H. P. Lovecraft

Hannah Arendt

Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Fallada

Harper Lee

Harriet A. Jacobs
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Helen Keller

Henri Poincare

Henrik Ibsen

Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel Webster
Henry David Thoreau

Henry Fielding

Henry James
Henry Maudsley
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Heraclitus

Herman Melville

Hermann Hesse

Herodotus
Hesiod

Hippocrates

Homer

Honoré de Balzac
Horace and Persius
Howard Pyle
Hugh Kennedy

Hugh Latimer

Hugo Grotius

Ibn Battuta
Ibn Khaldun

Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

Immanuel Kant
Imre Lakatos
Irene Hunt

Isaac Newton

Ivan Turgenev

Izaak Walton
J. M. Barrie
J. R. R. Tolkien

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Jack Kerouac
Jack London
Jack Schaefer

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Jacobus de Voragine; Byzantine miracle tradition
Jacobus de Voragine; Francesco Diedo tradition; later plague devotion
Jacobus de Voragine; William Caxton

James Boswell
James Fenimore Cooper

James George Frazer

James Harrington

James Joyce

James Madison

James Madison and Thomas Jefferson
James Monroe

Jane Addams

Jane Austen
Jean Craighead George
Jean Lee Latham
Jean-Etienne Dominique Esquirol

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Martin Charcot
Jean-Paul Sartre

Jeanne d'Arc; Pierre Cauchon; Guillaume Bouille; T. Douglas Murray

Johan Huizinga
Johann David Wyss

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johanna Spyri

Johannes Kepler

John Adams
John Boyd
John Buchan

John Bunyan

John C. Calhoun

John Calvin

John Chrysostom
John Courtney Murray

John Dewey

John Dickinson

John Donne
John F. Kennedy

John Henry Newman
John Keats

John Locke

John Maynard Keynes
John McCrae

John Milton

John Muir
John O'Hara
John Paul II
John Polidori

John Rawls

John Steinbeck

John Stuart Mill

John Wesley
John Winthrop

John Woolman
John von Neumann

Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Swift
Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud

Joseph Conrad
Judith Herrin
Jules Verne

Julius Caesar

Justinian I (Tribonian and commissioners)
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Karl Popper

Katherine Mansfield
Kautilya
Kenneth Grahame
King John and the barons of England

Kurt Godel
Kyle Harper
L. Frank Baum
L. M. Montgomery
Lady Gregory
Laura Hillenbrand
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laurence Sterne

Leo Tolstoy

Leslie Marmon Silko
Lewis Carroll

Livy (Titus Livius)
Lois Lowry
Lou Gehrig

Louis Pasteur and Joseph Lister

Louisa May Alcott

Lucretius
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Luigi Pirandello
Lysander Spooner
Madeleine L'Engle

Marcel Proust

Marco Polo (with Rustichello da Pisa)

Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Margery Williams
Marguerite de Angeli

Mariano Azuela

Marie de France

Mark Twain

Martin Luther

Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther, Johann Eck, and Andreas Karlstadt
Mary Mapes Dodge
Mary Norton

Mary Rowlandson

Mary Seacole

Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft

Max Weber
Michael Bond

Michael Faraday

Michael Polanyi

Michael Psellos

Michel de Montaigne

Miguel de Cervantes

Mikhail Bulgakov

Molière

Montesquieu

Napoleon Bonaparte
Nathaniel Benchley

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Natsume Sōseki

Nella Larsen

Nelson Mandela

Niccolo Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli

Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolo Barbaro, George Sphrantzes, Doukas, and others

Norbert Wiener
Norton Juster
Olivia Coolidge

Oscar Wilde

Ovid

Pablo Neruda

Padraic Colum
Patricia MacLachlan
Patrick Henry

Patrick of Ireland; Muirchu; Tirechan

Paul Auster
Paul Feyerabend
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Pericles
Peter Heather
Peter and Connie Roop
Philippe Pinel

Pierre Duhem
Pierre Janet

Pierre of Cambrai; Geel tradition

Plato

Pliny the Elder
Plotinus

Plutarch
Polybius

Pope Leo XIII
Procopius of Caesarea
R. H. Tawney
Ralph Moody
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ray Bradbury
Reginald Rose

Rene Descartes
Richard Adams
Richard Allen and Absalom Jones

Richard Hooker
Richard and Florence Atwater
Richard von Krafft-Ebing

Robert Boyle
Robert Browning

Robert Burton

Robert Filmer

Robert Frost

Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert McCloskey

Robert Y. Hayne

Ron Chernow
Ronald Reagan
Rosemary Sutcliff
Rudyard Kipling
Russell Hoban
Ruth Stiles Gannett

Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus)

Samuel Beckett

Samuel Rutherford
Samuel Tuke

Saul Bellow
Scott O'Dell
Second Vatican Council

Selma Lagerlöf

Seneca

Sigmund Freud

Snorri Sturluson

Solomon Northup

Sophocles

Soren Kierkegaard

Stefan Zweig

Stella Gibbons
Stephen Crane
Steven Runciman

Suetonius

Sulpitius Severus; Alexander Roberts

Sun Tzu

Supreme Court of the United States
- Marbury v. Madison
- Fletcher v. Peck
- McCulloch v. Maryland
- Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward
- Gibbons v. Ogden
- Worcester v. Georgia
- Barron v. Baltimore
- Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge
- Dred Scott v. Sandford
- Ex parte Milligan
- Veazie Bank v. Fenno
- Hepburn v. Griswold
- Legal Tender Cases
- Slaughter-House Cases
- Munn v. Illinois
- Reynolds v. United States
- Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- United States v. Wong Kim Ark
- Jacobson v. Massachusetts
- Lochner v. New York
- Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States
- Schenck v. United States
- Webb v. United States
- Meyer v. Nebraska
- Gitlow v. New York
- Linder v. United States
- Pierce v. Society of Sisters
- Buck v. Bell
- Near v. Minnesota
- A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States
- Norman v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. (Gold Clause Cases)
- Helvering v. Davis
- NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.
- West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish
- Minersville School District v. Gobitis
- Wickard v. Filburn
- West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
- Korematsu v. United States
- SEC v. W. J. Howey Co.
- Everson v. Board of Education
- Sweatt v. Painter
- Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer
- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
- Mapp v. Ohio
- Baker v. Carr
- Engel v. Vitale
- Robinson v. California
- Abington School District v. Schempp
- Gideon v. Wainwright
- SEC v. Capital Gains Research Bureau, Inc.
- New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
- Griswold v. Connecticut
- Miranda v. Arizona
- Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
- Lemon v. Kurtzman
- Wisconsin v. Yoder
- Roe v. Wade
- San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez
- United States v. Nixon
- O'Connor v. Donaldson
- Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder
- TSC Industries, Inc. v. Northway, Inc.
- Addington v. Texas
- Transamerica Mortgage Advisors, Inc. v. Lewis
- Aaron v. SEC
- Chiarella v. United States
- Diamond v. Chakrabarty
- Plyler v. Doe
- Youngberg v. Romeo
- Dirks v. SEC
- Lowe v. SEC
- Shearson/American Express Inc. v. McMahon
- Basic Inc. v. Levinson
- Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health
- Reves v. Ernst & Young
- Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey
- United States v. O'Hagan
- Washington v. Glucksberg
- Olmstead v. L. C.
- Zelman v. Simmons-Harris
- SEC v. Edwards
- Gonzales v. Raich
- District of Columbia v. Heller
- National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius
- Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc.
- Obergefell v. Hodges
- Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization

T. E. Lawrence
T. H. White

T. S. Eliot

Tacitus
Tamim Ansary

Teresa of Avila
The Mayflower Pilgrims

Theodor Fontane

Theodore Roosevelt

Theophrastus

Therese of Lisieux

Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Bulfinch
Thomas Gray

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Henry Huxley and Samuel Wilberforce

Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Malory

Thomas Mann
Thomas More

Thomas Paine
Thomas S. Kuhn
Thornton W. Burgess
Thornton Wilder

Thorstein Veblen

Thucydides

Ulysses S. Grant
Usama ibn Munqidh
Valmiki

Vannevar Bush
Various
Various (ed. Helen Gardner)

Vera Brittain

Victor Hugo
Viktor E. Frankl

Virgil
Virginia Lee Burton

Virginia Woolf

Vitus tradition; J. F. C. Hecker; Benjamin Guy Babington

Voltaire
W. B. Yeats

W. B. Yeats (editor)

W. E. B. Du Bois

Walt Whitman
Walter Scott
Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts
Washington Irving
Wendell Berry
Werner Heisenberg
Wilhelm Griesinger

Wilkie Collins

Willa Cather
William Blackstone
William Blake

William Faulkner

William Gilbert
William Golding

William Harvey

William James

William Shakespeare
- The Taming of the Shrew
- Richard III
- The Comedy of Errors
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Romeo and Juliet
- The Merchant of Venice
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Much Ado About Nothing
- As You Like It
- Henry V
- Julius Caesar
- Mark Antony's Funeral Oration ("Friends, Romans, countrymen")
- The St Crispin's Day Speech
- Hamlet
- Twelfth Night
- Othello
- King Lear
- Macbeth
- Sonnet 116
- Sonnets
- The Tempest

William Tecumseh Sherman

William Whewell
William Wordsworth
Wilson Rawls

Winston Churchill

Wu Cheng'en

Xenophon
