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- Mark Twain 337
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 313
- Henry David Thoreau 298
- George Bernard Shaw 259
- Benjamin Franklin 247
- Thomas Carlyle 212
- Lord Byron 198
- Friedrich Nietzsche 189
- Seneca 183
- Albert Einstein 177
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld 176
- George Eliot 167
- Abraham Lincoln 152
- Francis Bacon 149
- Gilbert K. Chesterton 145
- Benjamin Disraeli 145
- Eric Hoffer 139
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 138
- Marcus T. Cicero 137
- William Hazlitt 133
- Winston Churchill 132
- H. L. Mencken 130
- John Ruskin 127
- Henry Ward Beecher 122
- Georg C. Lichtenberg 122
- Oliver Wendell Holmes 120
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