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  1. Aeschylus
  2. Dante Alighieri
  3. Thomas Aquinas
  4. St. Augustine
  5. Aristophanes
  6. Aristotle
  7. Machado de Assis
  8. W. H. Auden
  9. Marcus Aurelius
  10. Jane Austen
  11. Francis Bacon
  12. James Baldwin
  13. Honore Balzac
  14. Karl Barth
  15. Charles Baudelaire
  16. Samuel Beckett
  17. Henri Bergson
  18. Bible
  19. William Blake
  20. Giovanni Boccaccio
  21. Boethius
  22. Niels Bohr
  23. Jorge Luis Borges
  24. James Boswell
  25. Charlotte Bronte
  26. Emily Bronte
  27. Robert Browning
  28. Lord Byron
  29. Willa Cather
  30. Catullus
  31. Miguel Cervantes
  32. Geoffrey Chaucer
  33. Anton Chekhov
  34. Marcus Tullius Cicero
  35. Samuel Coleridge
  36. Joseph Conrad
  37. Nicolas Copernicus
  38. Pierre Corneille
  39. Charles Darwin
  40. Daniel Defoe
  41. Rene Descartes
  42. Charles Dickens
  43. Emily Dickinson
  44. Denis Diderot
  45. John Donne
  46. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  47. Frederick Douglass
  48. Theodore Dreiser
  49. Albert Einstein
  50. El Cid
  51. George Eliot
  52. T.S. Eliot
  53. Ralph Ellison
  54. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  55. Epictetus
  56. Desiderius Erasmus
  57. Euclid
  58. Euripides
  59. Michael Faraday
  60. William Faulkner
  61. The Federalist Papers
  62. Henry Fielding
  63. Scott Fitzgerald
  1. Gustave Flaubert
  2. E. M. Forster
  3. Sir James Frazer
  4. Sigmund Freud
  5. Galileo Galilei
  6. Edward Gibbon
  7. William Gilbert
  8. Johann Goethe
  9. Nikolai Gogol
  10. Thomas Hardy
  11. William Harvey
  12. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  13. G.W.F. Hegel
  14. Martin Heidegger
  15. Werner Heisenberg
  16. Ernest Hemingway
  17. Herodotus
  18. Hesiod
  19. Hippocrates
  20. Thomas Hobbes
  21. Horace
  22. Homer
  23. David Hume
  24. Johan Huizinga
  25. Henrik Ibsen
  26. Henry James
  27. William James
  28. Thomas Jefferson
  29. Samuel Johnson
  30. Ben Jonson
  31. James Joyce
  32. Carl Jung
  33. Juvenal
  34. Franz Kafka
  35. Immanuel Kant
  36. John Keats
  37. Johannes Kepler
  38. John Maynard Keynes
  39. Soren Kierkegaard
  40. Koran
  41. Antoine Lavoisier
  42. D.H.Lawrence
  43. John Locke
  44. Lucan
  45. Lucretius
  46. Martin Luther
  47. Niccolo Machiavelli
  48. Thomas Malory
  49. Thomas Mann
  50. Christopher Marlowe
  51. Karl Marx
  52. Herman Melville
  53. John Stuart Mill
  54. John Milton
  55. Jean Moliere
  56. Michel Montaigne
  57. Baron Montesquieu
  58. Thomas More
  59. Vladimir Nabokov
  60. Isaac Newton
  61. Friedrich Nietzsche
  62. Flannery O’Connor
  63. Eugene O’Neill
  64. George Orwell
  65. Ovid
  1. Thomas Paine
  2. Blaise Pascal
  3. Francesco Petrarch
  4. Petronius
  5. Pindar
  6. Luigi Pirandello
  7. Max Planck
  8. Plato
  9. Plutarch
  10. Henri Poincare
  11. Alexander Pope
  12. Marcel Proust
  13. Ptolemy
  14. Aleksandr Pushkin
  15. Jean Racine
  16. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  17. Bertrand Russell
  18. Saint Augustine
  19. Sappho
  20. Arthur Schopenhauer
  21. William Shakespeare
  22. Bernard Shaw
  23. Mary Shelley
  24. Percy Shelley
  25. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  26. Adam Smith
  27. Song of Roland
  28. Sophocles
  29. Edmund Spenser
  30. Benedict Spinoza
  31. Lawrence Sterne
  32. Wallace Stevens
  33. Claude Levi Strauss
  34. Jonathan Swift
  35. Tacitus
  36. R.H.Tawney
  37. Alfred Tennyson
  38. William Thackery
  39. Henry David Thoreau
  40. Thucydides
  41. Alexis de Tocqueville
  42. Leo Tolstoy
  43. Anthony Trollope
  44. Ivan Turgenev
  45. Mark Twain
  46. Thorstein Veblen
  47. Virgil
  48. Francois Voltaire
  49. Evelyn Waugh
  50. Max Weber
  51. Alfred North Whitehead
  52. Walt Whitman
  53. Tennessee Williams
  54. Ludwig Wittgenstein
  55. Virginia Woolf
  56. William Wordsworth
  57. Richard Wright
  58. W.B.Yeats
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