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A fickle and changeable thing always is woman.

Virgil

Aeneid

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Nature of women Women

Author

Virgil

Source

Aeneid

Medium

Poem

Genre

Epic poem

Language

Latin

Time

19 BC 10s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Virgil. Aenē̆is [Aeneid]. 19 BC, bk. 4.

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Virgil. The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2010, bk. 4.

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It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

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Despising one's origins Home Shame

Speaker

Pip

Author

Charles Dickens

Source

Great Expectations

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story

Language

English

Time

1861 1860s 19th century

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Dickens, Charles. "Great Expectations." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, 26 Jan 1861, issue 9, ch. 14.

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Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 14.

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Take me to bed, or lose me forever.

Top Gun

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Sex

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Carole

Actor

Meg Ryan

Source

Top Gun

Medium

Film

Genre

Action (film) Drama (film) Action Drama

Statement Type

Orders and commands

Language

English

Time

1986 1980s 20th century

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Top Gun. Directed by Tony Scott, Paramount Pictures/Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, 1986.

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The deed is all, the glory nothing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust

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Accomplishment Glory

Speaker

Faust

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Source

Faust

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play) Tragedy

Language

German

Time

1832 1830s 19th century

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Von Goethe, Johann Wofgang. Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil [Faust. The Tragedy's Second Part]. 1832, act 4, sc. 1.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Faust: Part 2, translated by David Luke. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 4, sc. 1.

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Sure He that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To fust in us unused.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet

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Hamlet

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William Shakespeare

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Hamlet

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 4, sc. 4.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 4.

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When it comes to women, you’re a true democrat.

Rick Blaine

Casablanca

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Womanizers

Speaker

Rick Blaine

Actor

Humphrey Bogart

Source

Casablanca

Medium

Film

Genre

Romantic drama (film) Romantic drama

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

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Casablanca. Directed by Michael Curtiz, Warner Bros. Pictures, 1942.

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It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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Decisions and choices Character

Speaker

Dumbledore

Author

J.K. Rowling

Source

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Bloomsbury, 1998, ch. 18.

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For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.

Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol

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Christmas Childhood

Author

Charles Dickens

Source

A Christmas Carol

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1843 1840s 19th century

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Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843, stave 3.

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Dickens, Charles. "A Christmas Carol." A Christmas Carol and Other Writings, edited by Michael Slater. Penguin, 2003, stave 3.

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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women,
If it be a few ragged huts it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass

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Cities

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Walt Whitman

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Song of the Broad-Axe Leaves of Grass

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

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Whitman, Walt. "Song of the Broad-Axe." Leaves of Grass. Boston: J. R. Osgood, 1881-82, sect. 4.

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Whitman, Walt. "Song of the Broad-Axe." Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, sect. 4.

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The right of trial by jury shall be preserved.

Bill of Rights

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Seventh Amendment Jury system Criminal justice system

Source

Bill of Rights Constitution of the United States

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1789 1780s 18th century

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United States Constitution. Amend. 7.

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The Constitution of the United States. The Constitution of the United States and The Declaration of Independence. Written by Delegates of The Constitutional Convention. Racehorse, 2016, amend. 7.

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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

John Stuart Mill

On Liberty

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Individual freedom Freedom Libertarianism Political theory Politics

Author

John Stuart Mill

Source

On Liberty

Medium

Essay

Genre

Philosophical literature Political literature

Language

English

Time

1859 1850s 19th century

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Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: J.W. Parker and Son, 1859, ch. 5.

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Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 5.

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Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city.

Angel

Revelation 14:8

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Babylon

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Angel

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Revelation The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Vision

Language

Greek

Time

90 90s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Revelation 14:8).

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You see, but you do not observe.

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Scandal in Bohemia

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Observation Seeing

Speaker

Sherlock Holmes

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source

A Scandal in Bohemia

Medium

Short story Magazine

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1891 1890s 19th century

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Scandal in Bohemia." The Strand Magazine. London: July 1891.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Scandal in Bohemia." The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2010.

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One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

Ecclesiastes 1:4

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Ephemeral nature of life Circle of life Life The human condition The world

Source

Ecclesiastes The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

931 BC 930s BC 10th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Ecclesiastes 1:4).

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In order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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Cultivating desire Coveting Advertising and marketing

Author

Mark Twain

Source

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature Adventure novel

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1876 1870s 19th century

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Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876, ch. 2.

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Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, edited by Peter Stoneley. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 2.

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We live, as we dream—alone.

Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness

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Solitude The human condition

Author

Joseph Conrad

Source

Heart of Darkness

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1899 1890s 19th century

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Conrad, Joseph. "Heart of Darkness." Blackwood's Magazine. London and Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, Feb. 1899 - Apr. 1899.

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Conrad, Joseph. "Heart of Darkness." Heart of Darkness and Other Tales, edited by Cedric Watts. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 1.

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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina

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Infatuation Attraction

Author

Leo Tolstoy

Source

Anna Karenina

Medium

Novel

Language

Russian

Time

1877 1870s 19th century

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Tolstoy, Leo. Анна Каренина [Anna Karenina]. The Russian Messenger, 1875-1877. Serial.

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Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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They're selling postcards of the hanging.

Bob Dylan

Desolation Row

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Macabre

Speaker

Bob Dylan

Source

Desolation Row Highway 61 Revisited

Medium

Song

Genre

Folk rock

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

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Dylan, Bob. "Desolation Row." Highway 61 Revisited. Columbia Records, 1965.

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This is no democracy. It is a dictatorship. I am the law.

Remember the Titans

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Authoritarianism Authority

Speaker

Coach Herman Boone

Actor

Denzel Washington

Source

Remember the Titans

Genre

Sports (film) Biography (film) Sports Biography

Language

English

Time

2000 2000s 21st century

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Remember the Titans. Directed by Boaz Yakin, Technical Black Films/Jerry Bruckheimer Films/Walt Disney Pictures, 2000.

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I saw within Its depth how It conceives
all things in a single volume bound by Love,
of which the universe is the scattered leaves.

Dante Alighieri

Paradiso

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The universe

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Dante Alighieri

Source

Paradiso The Divine Comedy

Medium

Poem

Genre

Narrative poem Epic poem Religious literature

Language

Italian

Time

1321 1320s 14th century

Era

Middle Ages

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Alighieri, Dante. "Paradiso [Paradise]." La Comedia di Dante Alleghieri [The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri]. Foligno: Johann Numeister and Evangelista Angelini da Trevi, 1472.

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Alighieri, Dante. "Paradiso." The Divine Comedy, edited by David H. Higgins, translated by C. H. Sisson. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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