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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def read_collection(self, filename):
 """ Reads and returns a collection of stop words into a file. """

        with open(filename, 'rb') as fd:
            lines = fd.read().decode('utf-8-sig').splitlines()
        collection = list(filter(bool, [line.strip() for line in lines]))
        return collection