Johnson, Samuel
England
1709 // 1784
1709 // 1784
Wordsworth, William
England
1770 // 1850
1770 // 1850
Seneca, Lucius
Ancient Rome
-4 // 65
-4 // 65
Wright, Steven
United States
1955
1955
Goethe, Johann
Germany
1749 // 1832
1749 // 1832
Burke, Edmund
Ireland
1729 // 1797
1729 // 1797
Shaw, Bernard
Ireland
1856 // 1950
1856 // 1950
Murakami, Haruki
Japan
1949
1949
Yeats, William Butler
Ireland
1865 // 1939
1865 // 1939
Thoreau, Henry
United States
1817 // 1862
1817 // 1862
Syrus, Publilius
Ancient Rome
-85 // -43
-85 // -43
Einstein, Albert
Germany
1879 // 1955
1879 // 1955
Balzac, Honor� de
France
1799 // 1850
1799 // 1850
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Germany
1844 // 1900
1844 // 1900
Franklin, Benjamin
United States
1706 // 1790
1706 // 1790
Gandhi, Mohandas
India
1869 // 1948
1869 // 1948
Mencken, Henry
United States
1880 // 1956
1880 // 1956
Cicero, Marcus
Ancient Rome
-106 // -43
-106 // -43
Aristotle,
Ancient Greece
-384 // -322
-384 // -322
Tennyson, Alfred
England
1809 // 1892
1809 // 1892
Bacon, Francis
England
1561 // 1626
1561 // 1626
La Rochefoucauld, Fran�ois
France
1613 // 1680
1613 // 1680
Addison, Joseph
England
1672 // 1719
1672 // 1719
Frost, Robert
United States
1874 // 1963
1874 // 1963
Horace,
Ancient Rome
-65 // -8
-65 // -8
Longfellow, Henry
United States
1807 // 1882
1807 // 1882
Browning, Robert
England
1812 // 1889
1812 // 1889
Twain, Mark
United States
1835 // 1910
1835 // 1910
Jefferson, Thomas
United States
1743 // 1826
1743 // 1826
Goldsmith, Oliver
Ireland
1728 // 1774
1728 // 1774
Hemingway, Ernest
United States
1899 // 1961
1899 // 1961
Woolf, Virginia
England
1882 // 1941
1882 // 1941
Chesterton, Gilbert
England
1874 // 1936
1874 // 1936
Ovid,
Ancient Rome
-43 // 17
-43 // 17
Emerson, Ralph
United States
1803 // 1882
1803 // 1882
Confucius,
Ancient China
-551 // -479
-551 // -479
Wilde, Oscar
Ireland
1854 // 1900
1854 // 1900
Voltaire,
France
1694 // 1778
1694 // 1778
Lincoln, Abraham
United States
1809 // 1865
1809 // 1865
Churchill, Winston
England
1874 // 1965
1874 // 1965
Schiller, Friedrich
Germany
1759 // 1805
1759 // 1805
Fuller, Thomas
England
1654 // 1734
1654 // 1734
Joubert, Joseph
France
1754 // 1824
1754 // 1824
Bonaparte, Napoleon
France
1769 // 1821
1769 // 1821
Camus, Albert
France
1913 // 1960
1913 // 1960
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