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There was never any yet that wholly could escape love, and never shall there be any, never so long as beauty shall be, never so long as eyes can see.

Longus

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Power of love Love

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Longus

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Daphnis and Chloe

Language

Greek

Time

200 200s 3rd century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Longus. Δάφνις καὶ Χλόη [Daphnis and Chloe]. c. 250, preface.

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Longus. Daphnis and Chloe, translated by Ronald McCail. Oxford University Press, 2009, preface.

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There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works; in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.

Thomas Carlyle

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Hard work Idleness

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Thomas Carlyle

Source

The Modern Worker

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English

Time

1843 1840s 19th century

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Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present. London: Chapman and Hall, 1843, bk. 3, ch. 11.

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Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present, edited by David R. Sorensen and Brent E. Kinser. Oxford University Press, 2023, bk. 3, ch. 11.

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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Books Life

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Source

Virginibus Puerisque

Medium

Essay

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English

Time

1881 1880s 19th century

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "An Apology for Idlers." Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "An Apology for Idlers." Essays I: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, edited by Robert-Louis Abrahamson. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

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Under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship. There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

James A. Garfield

Inaugural Address of James A. Garfield

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Civil rights

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James A. Garfield

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Inaugural Address of James A. Garfield Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

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Political speech

Language

English

Time

1881 1880s 19th century

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Garfield, James A. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1881, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.

Psalm 55:6

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Flying like a bird Man and animals Escape

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Psalms The Bible

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Scripture

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Religious literature

Statement Type

Wish

Language

Hebrew

Time

450 BC 450s BC 5th century BC

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Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Psalm 55:6).

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A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Military veterans Soldiers

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Theodore Roosevelt

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English

Time

1903 1900s 20th century

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. Speech at the Lincoln Monument. 4 July 1903, Lincoln Monument, Springfield, IL, USA.

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All my joys to this are folly,
Naught so sweet as melancholy.

Robert Burton

The Anatomy of Melancholy

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Melancholy

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Robert Burton

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The Anatomy of Melancholy

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Philosophical literature

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English

Time

1621 1620s 17th century

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Burton, Robert. "The Author's Abstract of Melancholy." The Anatomy of Melancholy. Oxford: Henry Cripps, 1621.

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Burton, Robert. "The Author's Abstract of Melancholy." The Anatomy of Melancholy, edited by Holbrook Jackson. New York Review Books, 2001.

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No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species. Its appropriation is wholly a question of general expediency. When private property in land is not expedient, it is unjust.

John Stuart Mill

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Property rights Redistribution of resources Political theory Politics

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John Stuart Mill

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Principles of Political Economy

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Economic literature Political literature

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English

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

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Mill, John Stuart. Principles of Political Economy. London: John W. Parker, 1848, bk. 2, ch. 1, sect. 6.

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Mill, John Stuart. "Principles of Political Economy." Principles of Political Economy with Chapters on Socialism, edited by Jonathan Riley. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 2, ch. 1, sect. 6.

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Thus to be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science. Great achievement is assured, however, of subsequent recognition and grateful acceptance by public opinion, which in due course will make it one of its own prejudices.

G.W.F. Hegel

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Thinking outside the box Innovation Achievement Success Public opinion

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G.W.F. Hegel

Source

Philosophy of Right

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Essay

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Philosophical literature

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German

Time

1821 1820s 19th century

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Hegel, G. W. F. Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts [Fundamentals of the Philosophy of Law]. c. 1820, sect. 318.

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Hegel, G. W. F. Outlines of the Philosophy of Right, translated by T. M. Knox. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.

Oscar Wilde

A Woman of No Importance

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Men and women

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Mrs. Allonby

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Oscar Wilde

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A Woman of No Importance

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1893 1890s 19th century

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Wilde, Oscar. A Woman of No Importance. 1893, Haymarket Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2.

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Wilde, Oscar. "A Woman of No Importance." The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 2.

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The social, friendly, honest man,
Whate'er he be,
'Tis he fulfills great Nature's plan,
An' none but he!

Robert Burns

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Man as social animal Friendliness Honesty

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Robert Burns

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Second Epistle to J. Lapraik

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Poem

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English

Time

1785 1780s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Burns, Robert. Second Epistle to J. Lapraik. 21 Apr. 1785, st. 15.

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Burns, Robert. "To the Same. April 21st, 1785." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994, st. 15.

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Ceaselessly the river flows, and yet the water is never the same, while in the still pools the shifting foam gathers and is gone, never staying for a moment. Even so is man and his habitation.

Kamo no Chomei

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Rivers Water The only constant is change Impermanence The human condition

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Kamo no Chomei

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Japanese

Time

1212 1210s 13th century

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Kamo no Chomei. 方丈記 [An Account of My Hut]. c. 1212.

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Well, how you think the crack rock gets into the country? We don't own any planes. We don't own no ships. We are not the people who are flyin' and floatin' that shit in here.

Furious Styles

Boyz n the Hood

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Crack epidemic Inner city issues

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Furious Styles

Actor

Laurence Fishburne

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Boyz n the Hood

Medium

Film

Genre

Coming of age (film) Drama (film) Coming of age Drama

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

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Boyz n the Hood. Directed by John Singleton, Columbia Pictures, 1991.

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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

George Bernard Shaw

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Teaching

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George Bernard Shaw

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Maxims for Revolutionists: Education Man and Superman

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Play

Genre

Drama (play)

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English

Time

1903 1900s 20th century

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Man and Superman: Maxims for Revolutionists." Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021. Originally published by Archibald and Constable Co., Ltd., 1903.

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I would like to inform all the intrepid Muslims in the world that the author of the book entitled The Satanic Verses, which has been compiled, printed and published in opposition to Islam, the Prophet and the Qur'an, as well as those publishers who were aware of its contents, have been declared madhur el dam-those whose blood must be shed. I call on all zealous Muslims to execute them quickly, wherever they find them, so that noone will dare to insult Islam again. Whoever is killed in this path will be regarded as a martyr.

Ayatollah Khomeini

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Fatwah Islamic extremism Islam

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Ayatollah Khomeini

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Orders and commands

Language

Farsi

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

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Khomeini, Ruhollah. Fatwa against Salman Rushdie. 14 Feb. 1989, Iran. Radio broadcast.

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It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport."

Douglas Adams

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

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Airports Travel Architecture

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Douglas Adams

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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

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Novel

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1988 1980s 20th century

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Adams, Douglas. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. William Heinemann, 1988, ch. 1.

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Take the tone of the company, that you are in.

Lord Chesterfield

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Read the room

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Lord Chesterfield

Source

Letters of Lord Chesterfield

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1747 1740s 18th century

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to his son. 16 Oct. 1747.

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Communism is based on the belief that man is so weak and inadequate that he is unable to govern himself, and therefore requires the rule of strong masters. Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.

Harry Truman

Second Inaugural Address of Harry Truman

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Cold War Communism vs. democracy Communism Democracy Self-government Political theory

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Harry Truman

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Second Inaugural Address of Harry Truman Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

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English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

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Truman, Harry S. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1949, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

Proverbs 27:1

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Tomorrow The unknown The future

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Proverbs The Bible

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Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Orders and commands

Language

Hebrew

Time

686 BC 680s BC 7th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible, New International Version. International Bible Society, 1978. (Proverbs 27:1).

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Alas! I have nor hope nor health,
Nor peace within nor calm around,
Nor that content surpassing wealth
The sage in meditation found.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples

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Meditation

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples

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Poem

Language

English

Time

1824 1820s 19th century

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples." Posthumous Poems. London: John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824, I. 18.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Stanzas Written in Dejection-December 1818, near Naples." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 18.

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