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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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Oct 7, 2021
Oct 7, 2021
Oct 7, 2021
16 min
John Woolman was the foremost leader of the early Quakers and contributed much to the spiritual life of the American Colonies. He was a pioneer in the crusade against slavery. (Volume 1, Harvard Classics)
John Woolman died Oct. 7, 1772.
Oct 6, 2021
Oct 6, 2021
Oct 6, 2021
24 min
Wakened by the death cries of her sentry, Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, fled by a secret passage from the fury of a vile mob. The royal family was arrested and taken to Paris to await their fate. (Volume 24, Harvard Classics)
Oct 5, 2021
Oct 5, 2021
Oct 5, 2021
23 min
A boxer in public games desired to study philosophy at Athens. There were no furnaces to tend, no tables to wait on, no books or magazines to peddle, yet this sturdy young Greek managed to work his way through college. (Volume 28, Harvard Classics)
Oct 4, 2021
Oct 4, 2021
Oct 4, 2021
25 min
The man who put pebbles in his mouth and orated to the sea, shaved one-half of his head so that he would be obliged to stay at home until he had perfected his oratory -- a strange method of attaining eminence, but a successful one. (Volume 12, Harvard Classics)
Oct 3, 2021
Oct 3, 2021
Oct 3, 2021
15 min
When polite English society conversed in French -- considering English a vulgar tongue, fit only for servants and working people -- Chaucer, nevertheless, wrote poems in this "vulgar" English, which charm us because of their quaint words. (Volume 40, Harvard Classics)