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The centuries roll back to the ancient age of gold.

Horace

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The good old days

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Horace

Source

Odes (Horace)

Medium

Poem

Language

Latin

Time

23 BC 20s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 4, no. 2.

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Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 4, no. 2.

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All theory, dear friend, is grey, but the golden tree of actual life springs ever green.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust

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Life

Speaker

Mephistopheles

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Source

Faust

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play) Tragedy

Language

German

Time

1808 1800s 19th century

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Studiezimmer [Study Room]." Faust. Eine Tragödie [Faust: A Tragedy]. Tübingen: J. G. Cotta’schen Buchhandlung, 1808.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Study Room." Faust, Part One, edited by David Luke. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Many complain of their Memory, few of their Judgment.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Memory Judgment Self-criticism Delusion

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Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

Source

Poor Richard's Almanack

Medium

Almanac

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1745 1740s 18th century

Era

Colonial America

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Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1745.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1745." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

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Truth vs. fiction Truth Fiction

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Mark Twain

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Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

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Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 15.

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Twain, Mark. "Following the Equator." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 15.

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It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a little kind of a low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

Mark Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Killing time Rivers

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Mark Twain

Source

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature Adventure novel

Language

English

Time

1884 1880s 19th century

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Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, ch. 12.

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Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, edited by R. Kent Rasmussen. Penguin Classics, 2014, ch. 12.

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It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

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March Spring Seasons Weather

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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, 13 July 1861, issue 33, ch. 54.

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Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 54.

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Mere cleverness is not wisdom.

Euripides

Bacchae

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Wisdom Cleverness

Speaker

Chorus

Author

Euripides

Source

Bacchae

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

Greek

Time

405 BC 400s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Euripides. The Bacchae. 405 BC, l. 395.

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Euripides. "The Baccae." Euripedes V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus, translated by Richard Lattimore, et. al. University of Chicago Press, 2013, l. 395.

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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being... This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont, to be called Lord God παντοκρατωρ or Universal Ruler.

Isaac Newton

Principia

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Origin of the universe Creation of the world Creation God

Author

Isaac Newton

Source

Principia

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

Latin

Time

1713 1710s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Newton, Isaac. Scholium Generale. [General Scolium]. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy] vol. 2. London: Benjamin Motte, 1729.

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Newton, Isaac. "General Scolium." The Principia, translated by Andrew Motte. Prometheus, 1995.

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If you don't know, now you know.

Notorious BIG

Juicy

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Knowledge

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Notorious BIG

Source

Juicy Ready to Die

Medium

Song

Genre

Hip hop

Language

English

Time

1994 1990s 20th century

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The Notorious B.I.G. "Juicy." Ready to Die. Bad Boy Records/Arista Records, 1994.

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Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?

Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea

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Luck

Author

Ernest Hemingway

Source

The Old Man and the Sea

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

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Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

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Reader, I married him.

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

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Marriage

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Charlotte Brontë

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Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

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Brontë, Charlotte, [published as Currer Bell]. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. Vol. 3, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1847, ch. 38.

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Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics, 2006, ch. 38.

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Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

God

Exodus 20:8-11

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Sabbath Rest The Ten Commandments

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God

Source

Exodus The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

1405 BC 1400s BC 15th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Exodus 20:8-11).

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I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase. It’s all in the game, though, right?

Omar Little

The Wire

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Criminal justice system

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Omar Little

Actor

Michael Kenneth Williams

Source

The Wire

Medium

TV program

Genre

Crime (TV) Drama (TV) Crime Drama

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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"All Prologue." The Wire, written by David Simon and Ed Burns and Joy Kecken, directed by Steve Shill, season 2, episode 6, Blown Deadline Productions and Home Box Office, 2003.

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Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

Aristotle

The Nicomachean Ethics

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Habits Virtue Self-improvement Personal growth Human nature

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Aristotle

Source

The Nicomachean Ethics

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Greek

Time

322 BC 320s BC 4th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Aristotle. Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια, Ēthika Nikomacheia [Nicomachean Ethics]. c. 322 BC.

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Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics, translated by Terence Irwin. Hackett Publishing, 2019, bk. 2.

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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

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Being in love Love

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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, 30 Mar. 1861, issue 17, ch. 29.

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Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 29.

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Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

Mark Twain

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Familiarity breeds contempt Fading love Love

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Journals of Mark Twain

Medium

Personal journal

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1894 1890s 19th century

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 21. Originally from Notebook, 1894.

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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Thomas Paine

Common Sense

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Changing the world Taking action Politics

Author

Thomas Paine

Source

Common Sense

Medium

Pamphlet

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1776 1770s 18th century

Era

American Revolutionary Period

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Paine, Thomas [published anonymously]. Common Sense. Philadelphia: R. Bell, 1776.

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Paine, Thomas. "Common Sense." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

Socrates

Quoted in Apology, by Plato

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The unknown Death The afterlife

Speaker

Socrates

Author

Plato

Source

Apology

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Greek

Time

339 BC 330s BC 4th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Plato. Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους [Apology of Socrates]. Speech of legal self-defence which Socrates spoke at his trial for impiety and corruption. 399 BC, Athens, Greece.

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Plato. "Apology." Plato: Euthyphro; Apology; Crito; Phaedo, translated by Christopher Emlyn-Jones and William Preddy. Harvard University Press, 2017.

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He cannot have God for his father who has not the church for his mother.

St. Cyprian

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Catholic church God and man Christianity

Author

St. Cyprian

Source

On the Unity of the Catholic Church

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Latin

Time

251 250s 3rd century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Saint Cyprian. De Ecclesiae Catholicae Unitate. c. 251, ch. 6.

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Always vote.

Walt Whitman

Democratic Vistas

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Voting Civic duty Politics

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Walt Whitman

Source

Democratic Vistas

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature

Statement Type

Orders and commands

Language

English

Time

1871 1870s 19th century

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Whitman, Walt. Democratic Vistas. Washington D.C.: J. S. Redfield, 1871.

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Whitman, Walt. Democratic Vistas, edited by Ed Folsom. University Of Iowa Press, 2009.

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