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  2. Mother Teresa - Wikipedia

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    Mother Teresa. Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu MC (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian: [aˈɲɛzə ˈɡɔndʒɛ bɔjaˈdʒi.u]; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa, [a] was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity. Born in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire, [b] at the age of ...

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    W. Somerset Maugham. William Somerset Maugham [n 2] CH ( / mɔːm / MAWM; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) [n 1] was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, Maugham was schooled in England and went to a German university. He became a medical student in London and ...

  4. The Three Hermits - Wikipedia

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    1886. Published in English. 1907. " The Three Hermits " (Russian: Три Старца) is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy) written in 1885 and first published in 1886 in the weekly periodical Niva ( нива ). [1] It appeared in the short-story collection Twenty-Three Tales which was first translated into ...

  5. These 25 Juicy Novels Were Based on True Stories - AOL

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    Lizzie Borden's life story is based on lore as much as it is documented history, and has been told several different ways both on the page and screen. Schmidt's take is from four individual ...

  6. Socrates - Wikipedia

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    The Pyrrhonists were also antagonistic to Socrates, accusing him of being a prater about ethics, who engaged in mock humility, and who sneered at and mocked people. Medieval world Depiction of Socrates in a manuscript by Al-Mubashshir ibn Fatik. Socratic thought found its way to the Islamic Middle East alongside that of Aristotle and the Stoics.

  7. The Great Stone Face (Hawthorne) - Wikipedia

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    The Great Stone Face (Hawthorne) " The Great Stone Face " is a short story published by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850. The story reappeared in a full-length book, The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales, published by Ticknor, Reed & Fields in 1852. It has since been republished and anthologized many times. [1]

  8. List of short stories by Alice Munro - Wikipedia

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    06 = The View from Castle Rock – 2006. 09 = Too Much Happiness – 2009. 12 = Dear Life – 2012. Compilations. s96 = Selected Stories – 1996. s03 = No Love Lost – 2003. s04 = Vintage Munro – 2004. s06 = Alice Munro's Best: A Selection of Stories – Toronto 2006/ Carried Away: A Selection of Stories – New York 2006; both with an ...

  9. Humility - Wikipedia

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    Humility is the quality of being humble. [1] Dictionary definitions accentuate humility as low self-regard and sense of unworthiness. [2] In a religious context, humility can mean a recognition of self in relation to a deity (i.e. God ), and subsequent submission to that deity as a member of that religion.

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