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An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

imanuelle-kantEnlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity
is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another.
This immaturity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding, but
lack of resolution and courage to use it without the guidance of another. Sapere aude! Have courage to use your own
understanding!read the short story

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IMMANUEL KANT

The Furnished Room by O. Henry

     Restless, shifting, fugacious-- as time itself is a certain vast bulk of the population of the- red brick district of the lower West -Side. Homeless, they -have a hundred homes. -They flit from furnished room to furnished room, transients forever—transients in abode, transients in heart and mind.read the short story

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Romance
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O. Henry

Gogol's Story: The Cloak

In the department of----, but it is better not to mention the
department. The touchiest things in the world are departments,
regiments, courts of justice, in a word, all branches of public
service. Each individual nowadays thinks all society insulted in his
person. Quite recently, a complaint was received from a district chief
of police in which he plainly demonstrated that all the imperialread the short story

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NIKOLAY V. GOGOL
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The Dowry

dowryThe marriage of Maitre Simon Lebrument with Mademoiselle Jeanne Cordier was a surprise to no one. Maitre Lebrument had bought out the practice of Maitre Papillon; naturally, he had to have money to pay for it; and Mademoiselle Jeanne Cordier had three hundred thousand francs clear in currency, and in bonds payable to bearer.read the short story

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Other
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Guy de Maupassant
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How Much Land Does a Man Need?

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An elder sister came to visit her younger sister in the country.
The elder was married to a tradesman in town, the younger to a
peasant in the village. As the sisters sat over their tea talking,
the elder began to boast of the advantages of town life: saying how
comfortably they lived there, how well they dressed, what fine
clothes her children wore, what good things they ate and drank, andread the short story

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Leo Tolstoy
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The Accursed Bread

Daddy Taille had three daughters: Anna, the eldest, who was scarcely ever mentioned in the family; Rose, the second girl, who was eighteen, and Clara, the youngest, who was a girl of fifteen.read the short story

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Other
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Guy De Maupassant
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Discovery

The steamer was crowded with people and the crossing promised to be
good. I was going from Havre to Trouville.read the short story

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Guy De Maupassant
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Belhomme's Beast

The coach for Havre was ready to leave Criquetot, and all the passengers
were waiting for their names to be called out, in the courtyard of the
Commercial Hotel kept by Monsieur Malandain, Jr.read the short story

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Other
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Guy De Maupassant
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The Umbrella

Mme. Oreille was a very economical woman; she knew the value of a centime, and possessed a whole storehouse of strict principles with regard to the multiplication of money, so that her cook found the
greatest difficulty in making what the servants call their market-penny, and her husband was hardly allowed any pocket money at all. read the short story

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By Guy De Maupassant
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Miss Sally's Company

"How beautiful!" said Mary Seymour delightedly, as they dismounted from their wheels on the crest of the hill. "Ida, who could have supposed that such a view would be our reward for climbing that long, tedious hill with its ruts and stones? Don't you feel repaid?"read the short story

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Other
Author: 
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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