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Greatest writer of all time
>Shakespeare

Greatest Poet of all time in all genres
>Shakespeare (if the plays count as poetry)

Greatest Epic Poet
>Homer (sorry, Dante)

Greatest lyric poet (that is, not dramatic or epic)
>Emily Dickinson (her poems are better than Shakespeare’s sonnets)

Greatest Novelist
>Tolstoy

Greatest short story writer
>Chekhov (Tolstoy in second place)

Greatest philosopher
>Buddha (after the division of philosophy and science his teachings remain the most profound, useful and wise)

Greatest artist
>Michelangelo

Greatest Musician
>Mozart (maybe is a tie with Beethoven, with Bach at second place)

Greatest movie director
>Orson Welles (Shakespeare did a great deal to his brain)

Greatest scientist
>Newton

Greatest psychologist and sociologist
>Darwin

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>>9938047

She is a delight, isn't she?

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>>9751410

What do you guys think it is harder to write: Macbeth or the Jupiter symphony (Mozart's number 41)?

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