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Answers questions on The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: his life, work habits and the thirteen virtues, quoting the Harvard Classics edition from Project Gutenberg (public domain).
“The first five chapters of the Autobiography were composed in England in 1771, continued in 1784-5, and again in 1788, at which date he brought it down to 1757.…”
Answers questions on Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery: his early life, education and founding of the Tuskegee Institute, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“# UP FROM SLAVERY: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY”
Answers questions on the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: his life in slavery, learning to read and his escape, quoting the 1845 text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“# Narrative of the Life of FREDERICK DOUGLASS Note from the original file: This electronic book is being released at this time to honor the birthday of Martin L…”
Answers questions on Russell Conwell's lecture Acres of Diamonds, on finding opportunity close at hand, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the section.
“## HIS LIFE AND ACHIEVEMENTS”
Answers questions on Samuel Smiles's Self-Help: perseverance, energy, character and the lives of self-made people, quoting the 1859 text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“The chief use of biography consists in the noble models of character in which it abounds. Our great forefathers still live among us in the records of their live…”
Answers questions on Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays: First Series, including Self-Reliance, Compensation and Friendship, quoting the 1841 text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the essay.
“…nce History becomes fluid and true, and Biography deep and sublime. As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and …”
Answers questions on Suetonius's Lives of the Twelve Caesars, from Julius Caesar and Augustus to Caligula, Nero and Domitian, quoting Alexander Thomson's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the life.
“Of his numerous biographical works, twenty-two lives only remain, which are all of Greeks, except two Carthaginians, Hamilcar and Hannibal; and two Romans, M. P…”
Answers questions on H. G. Wells's A Short History of the World, from the origins of life and the first civilisations to the First World War, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“# A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORLD”
Answers questions on Aesop's Fables: the Hare and the Tortoise, the Fox and the Grapes and hundreds more, each with its moral, quoting George Fyler Townsend's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the fable.
“## LIFE OF AESOP”
Answers questions on Hendrik van Loon's The Story of Mankind: Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the revolutions, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“# THE STORY OF MANKIND”
