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Painting of an older Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Photograph of English novelist John Fowles.

The Sea

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel & John Fowles

Seated man with a large white beard wearing a dark suit

Black and white photograph of a dark-haired man in a white shirt holding a newspaper

Migration

Karl Marx & Cesar Chavez

Flesh

Blaise Pascal & David Cronenberg

Color painting early Chinese philosopher Mengzi.

Black and white photograph of a young John Ruskin wearing a suit.

Lines of Work

Mencius & John Ruskin

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

Migration

Charles Gunter & Free State Project

Engraving of William Shakespeare from the first folio edition.

Black and white photograph of Friedrich Nietzsche with a huge mustache.

Book of Nature

William Shakespeare & Friedrich Nietzsche

Portrait bust of Roman poet Virgil.

Photograph of French writer Guy de Maupassant.

The Sea

Virgil & Guy de Maupassant

Photograph of German literary critic Walter Benjamin.

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Arts & Letters

Walter Benjamin & Andy Warhol

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

r/Ask Reddit

Friendship

H.L. Mencken & r/Ask Reddit

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American musician, songwriter, and co-founder of Mötley Crüe Nikki Sixx.

Celebrity

Suetonius & Nikki Sixx

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

Luck

Marcus Tullius Cicero & Samuel Butler

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

Fashion

Ralph Waldo Emerson & K-HOLE

Sculpture bust of Greek dramatist Euripides.

Rivalry & Feud

Euripides & Eliza Haywood

Depiction of Greek philosopher Plato.

Black and white photograph of American author Edith Wharton.

Politics

Plato & Edith Wharton

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Arts & Letters

Arthur Fifield & Norman Maclean