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Former President of Harvard University Charles W. Eliot wrote in his introduction to the Harvard Classics, "In my opinion, a five-foot shelf would hold books enough to give a liberal education to any one who would read them with devotion, even if he could spare but fifteen minutes a day for reading." Here you are, you can easily listen to his entire 15-minutes-a-day study guide while commuting to and from work (most of us spend far more than 15 minutes a day commuting each day), doing mundane work in the office, washing dishes at home, or doing most of the things day in and day out. It is so easy, so entertaining, and so educational that they can be listened to again and again, until they permeate into our own thinking and into our characters. Perhaps, in one year's time, you will become someone you barely recognize, all for the better. Who knows? -- Rich E Book
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Monday Feb 14, 2022
Monday Feb 14, 2022
Monday Feb 14, 2022
Pascal --- an original genius --- purposed to master everything that was new in art and science. He was a mathematician and scientist as well as a religious enthusiast and moralist, and he shows a decidedly human side of his nature in this superb essay on Love. (Volume 48, Harvard Classics)
St. Valentine's Day.
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
At the age of fifty-eight Benvenuto Cellini shaved his head and retired to a monastery to write his own story of murder, passion, and great deeds of the Renaissance. His life is a vivid picture of the most colorful period in history, a period when statecraft and religion and black magic and assassination were naively mingled in men's lives. (Volume 31, Harvard Classics)
Benvenuto Cellini died Feb. 13, 1570.
Saturday Feb 12, 2022
Saturday Feb 12, 2022
Introductory note on Abraham Lincoln (Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln)
Saturday Feb 12, 2022
Saturday Feb 12, 2022
Lincoln himself thought his famous Gettysburg Address was a failure. To-day the whole world acclaims its greatness. Cast in bronze, it hangs on the wall of Balliol College, Oxford, regarded as the perfection of English prose. (Volume 43, Harvard Classics)
Abraham Lincoln born Feb. 12, 1809.
Friday Feb 11, 2022
Friday Feb 11, 2022
Friday Feb 11, 2022
Descartes was slain through the eccentric whim of a queen who demanded that he tutor her in the freezing dawn in the dead of winter. His philosophy lives in this essay. (Volume 34, Harvard Classics)
René Descartes died at Stockholm, Feb. 11, 1650.
Thursday Feb 10, 2022
Thursday Feb 10, 2022
Thursday Feb 10, 2022
Voltaire once visited Congreve. This famous dramatist requested to be regarded only as a plain gentleman. "Had you been that I should never have come to see you," Voltaire cynically replies. (Volume 34, Harvard Classics)
William Congreve baptized Feb. 10, 1670.