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Scottish writer and journalist (1812-1904)
Also known as: Сэмюэл Смайлс, صموئيل سمايلز, 새무얼 스마일즈, サミュエル・スマイルズ, 塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯, Смайлс
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- Collected Works of Samuel Smiles (Collected Works) (1997)
- Industrial biography (1863)
- Self-help (1800)
- A publisher and his friends (1891)
- Lives of the engineers (1861)