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Sleep Story 201 - George Bernard Shaw: His Plays

Bore You To Sleep - Sleep Stories for Adults

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Darwin's Death and the Death of Charles Darwin

Darwin is dead now, and the public that reads the newspapers remembers him only as the person who first publicly noted the fact that men look a great deal like monkeys. But his soul goes marching on. Thomas huxley and herbert spencer spent their lives seeing to that from him. And so contrariwise, george bernard shaw might have become a gold stick in waiting at the court of saint james or archbishop of canterbury. The accident that made him what he is was one of time. He saw the light after instead of before.

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