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The Harvard Classics 48: Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works is unavailable, but you can change that!

When Charles William Eliot assembled The Harvard Classics, more commonly known as “The Five-Foot Shelf,” and later the “Shelf of Fiction”, he gathered this epic collection of key works which he thought would best represent “the progress of man… from the earliest historical times to the close of the nineteenth century.” In his introduction to The Harvard Classics, Eliot likens the collection to a...

43 Certain authors, speaking of their works, say, “My book,” “My commentary,” “My history,” &c. They resemble middle-class people who have a house of their own, and always have “My house” on their tongue. They would do better to say, “Our book” “Our commentary,” “Our history,” &c., because there is in them usually more of other people’s than their own. 44 Do you wish people to believe good of you? Don’t speak. 45 Languages are ciphers, wherein letters are not changed into letters, but words into
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