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"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."

Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking-Glass

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Nature of reality Logic

Author

Lewis Carroll

Source

Through the Looking-Glass

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1871 1870s 19th century

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Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. London: Macmillan, 1871, ch. 4.

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Carroll, Lewis. "Through the Looking-Glass." Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass. Macmillan Collector's Library, 2016, ch. 4.

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Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought.

Theognis of Megara

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Passage of time Aging Youth

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Theognis of Megara

Source

Elegies

Medium

Poem

Language

Greek

Time

541 BC 540s BC 6th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Theognis. Elegies. c. 541 BC.

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Theognis. "Elegies." Hesiod and Theognis: Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies, translated by Dorothea Wender. Penguin Classics, 1976.

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If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

John Stuart Mill

On Liberty

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Freedom of speech and expression Dissent

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. 2.

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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. 2.

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The first and wisest of them all professed
To know this only, that he nothing knew.

John Milton

Paradise Regained

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Intellectual humility Wisdom Ignorance

Author

John Milton

Source

Paradise Regained

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Poem

Genre

Religious literature Epic poem

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1671 1670s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Milton, John. "Paradise Regained." Paradise Regained, A Poem in 4 Books, to which is added Samson Agonistes. London: John Starkey, 1671, bk. 4, I. 293.

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Milton, John. "Paradise Regained." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 4, I. 293.

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Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

Publilius Syrus

Sententiae

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Prices Free market

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Publilius Syrus

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Sententiae

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Epigram

Language

Latin

Time

43 BC 40s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

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All systems, either of preference or of restraint, therefore, being thus completely taken away, the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself of its own accord. Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man, or order of men.

Adam Smith

The Wealth of Nations

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Free market Economic theory Political theory

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Adam Smith

Source

The Wealth of Nations

Genre

Economic literature

Language

English

Time

1776 1770s 18th century

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Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations. Vol. 2, London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell 1776, bk. 4, ch. 9.

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Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations, edited by Edwin Cannan. The Modern Library, bk. 4, ch. 9.

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A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful? Holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me."

Plutarch

Plutarch's Lives

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Challenges of marriage Marriage

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Plutarch

Source

Plutarch's Lives

Genre

Historical literature

Language

Greek

Time

119 110s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Plutarch. "Aemilius Paulus." Βίοι Παράλληλοι [Parallel Lives]. c. 2nd century.

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Plutarch. "Aemilius." Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Roman Lives, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en.
In brief, sir, study what you most affect.

William Shakespeare

The Taming of the Shrew

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What to study

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Tranio

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

The Taming of the Shrew

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1594 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Shakespeare, William. The Taming of the Shrew. London: Cuthbert Burbie, 1594, act 1, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Taming of the Shrew." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 1.

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A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied.

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Cigarettes

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Lord Henry "Harry" Wotton

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Oscar Wilde

Source

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Medium

Novel Magazine

Language

English

Time

1890 1890s 19th century

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Philadelphia, July 1890, ch. 4.

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Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 6.

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And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Genesis 1:5

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Creation of the universe Creation of the world

Source

Genesis The Bible

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Scripture

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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. (Genesis 1:5).

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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

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Ephemeral nature of life

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Marcus Aurelius

Source

Meditations

Medium

Personal journal

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Greek

Time

180 180s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 4.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 4.

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When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis

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Transformation Change Alienation from oneself Alienation

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Franz Kafka

Source

The Metamorphosis

Medium

Novel

Genre

Modernist literature

Statement Type

Opening lines

Language

German

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

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Kafka, Franz. Die Verwandlung [The Metamorphosis]. Verlag, 1915, ch. 1.

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Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis, translated by Susan Bernofsky. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, ch. 1.

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No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze.

Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness

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Hunger and desperation Hunger

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Joseph Conrad

Source

Heart of Darkness

Medium

Novella

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. 2.

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Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!

James Fenimore Cooper

The Last of the Mohicans

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Learning from adversity

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The Scout

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James Fenimore Cooper

Source

The Last of the Mohicans

Medium

Novel

Genre

Historical

Language

English

Time

1826 1820s 19th century

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Cooper, James Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1826, ch. 25.

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Cooper, James Fenimore. "The Last of the Mohicans." James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales. Vol. 1, Library of America, 1985, ch. 25.

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We give to necessity the praise of virtue.

Quintilian

Institutio Oratoria

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Necessity Moral theory

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Quintilian

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Institutio Oratoria

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Latin

Time

95 90s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Quintilian. Institutio Oratoria [Institutes of Oratory]. c. 95 AD, bk. 1, ch. 8, sect. 14.

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In "Confessions of a Winning Poker Player," Jack King said, "Few players recall big pots they have won, strange as it seems, but every player can remember with remarkable accuracy the outstanding tough beats of his career." It seems true to me, cause walking in here, I can hardly remember how I built my bankroll, but I can't stop thinking of how I lost it.

Rounders

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Loss aversion Cognitive biases Gambling

Speaker

Mike McDermott

Actor

Matt Damon

Source

Rounders

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Rounders. Directed by John Dahl, Spanky Pictures, 1998.

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The sleep of reason produces monsters.

Francisco Goya

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Reason and emotion Reason Dreams

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Francisco Goya

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Los Caprichos

Language

Spanish

Time

1799 1790s 18th century

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Goya, Francisco. Los Caprichos. 1799, plate 43, title.

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Goya, Francisco. Los Caprichos. Dover Publications, 1969, plate 43, title.

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The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me.

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day

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The future

Speaker

Miss Kenton

Author

Kazuo Ishiguro

Source

The Remains of the Day

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

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Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day. Faber & Faber, 1989.

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No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.

Publilius Syrus

Sententiae

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Variety

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Publilius Syrus

Source

Sententiae

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Epigram

Language

Latin

Time

43 BC 40s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

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What if there were no tomorrow?

Groundhog Day

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The future

Speaker

Phil

Actor

Bill Murray

Source

Groundhog Day

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Fantasy (film) Comedy Fantasy

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

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Groundhog Day. Directed by Harold Ramis, Columbia Pictures, 1993.

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