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Portrait of Philip Dormer Stanhope wearing a blue sash.

Missing contributor image silhouette

Lines of Work

Philip Dormer Stanhope & Louis C.K.

Painting of William Wordsworth.

Black and white photograph of American revolutionary writer and activist John Reed.

Revolutions

William Wordsworth & John Reed

Jonathan Swift

Discovery

Jonathan Swift & Thomas S. Kuhn

Engraving of Roman author and administrator Pliny the Younger.

German sociologist and philosopher Georg Simmel.

The City

Pliny the Younger & Georg Simmel

Black and white photograph of American writer and exponent of Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Fashion

Ralph Waldo Emerson & K-HOLE

Photograph of American novelist and short story writer Stephen Crane.

Photograph of American writer William S. Burroughs.

Intoxication

Stephen Crane & William S. Burroughs

Color portrait of English essayist, dramatist, and journalist Richard Steele.

Black and white photograph of social reformer and pacifist Jane Addams.

Youth

Richard Steele & Jane Addams

Sepia image of a stern-looking older man with heavy side whiskers

Migration

Charles Gunter & Free State Project

Drawing of Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard.

British philosopher, logician, and social critic Bertrand Russell.

Religion

Søren Kierkegaard & Bertrand Russell

Trade

Beatrice Webb & Elizabeth Warren

Black and white photograph of Mencken looking over his shoulder at the camera

r/Ask Reddit

Friendship

H.L. Mencken & r/Ask Reddit

Flesh

Blaise Pascal & David Cronenberg

Portrait bust of Roman poet Virgil.

Photograph of French writer Guy de Maupassant.

The Sea

Virgil & Guy de Maupassant

Portrait bust of presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey Homer.

Painted portrait of English poet John Milton.

Politics

Homer & John Milton

Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and writer Marcus Tullius Cicero.

Luck

Marcus Tullius Cicero & Samuel Butler