Free SummarizerThe Gift of the Magi
O. Henry · short story, 1905
A poor couple each sell their one prized possession to buy the other a Christmas gift, and the gifts arrive useless on the same night.
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Walden
Henry David Thoreau, 1854
Thoreau moves into a self-built cabin to prove that most of what people spend their lives earning was never necessary in the first place.
The Common Law
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · legal lectures, 1881
A future Supreme Court justice argues that law is not a system of logic at all, it is a record of what judges felt was necessary, dressed up afterward in reasons.
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