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Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

Umberto Eco

The Name of the Rose

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Naps Sleep

Author

Umberto Eco

Source

The Name of the Rose

Medium

Novel

Language

Italian

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

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Eco, Umberto. Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose]. Bompiani, 1980.

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Eco, Humberto. The Name of the Rose, translated by William Weaver. HarperVia, 2014.

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More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

R. S. Surtees

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Persuasion Moral progress

Author

R. S. Surtees

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English

Time

1846 1840s 19th century

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Surtees, Robert Smith. The Analysis of the Hunting Field. London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1846, ch. 1.

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Shakespeare-the nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.

Laurence Olivier

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Shakespeare

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Laurence Olivier

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

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Olivier, Laurence. Interviewed by Kenneth Harris. BBC, c. 1966.

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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

Matthew Arnold

Culture and Anarchy

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Personal growth

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Matthew Arnold

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Culture and Anarchy

Genre

Sociology

Language

English

Time

1869 1860s 19th century

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Arnold, Matthew. "Sweetness and Light." Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1869. Originally published in Cornhill Magazine, 1867–68.

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Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style-but a particular kind of style. It is the love of the exaggerated, the "off," of things-being-what-they-are-not... The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.

Susan Sontag

Notes on Camp

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Camp Taste

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Susan Sontag

Source

Notes on Camp Against Interpretation

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Essay

Statement Type

Definition

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

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Sontag, Susan. "Notes on 'Camp.'" Partisan Review, Fall 1964.

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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

Quoted in Cosmopolitan

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Ideas Creativity

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John Steinbeck

Source

Cosmopolitan

Medium

Interview Magazine

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1947 1940s 20th century

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Steinbeck, John. "Interview with a Best-Selling Author: John Steinbeck." Interviewed by Robert van Gelder. Cosmopolitan, Apr. 1947.

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A mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich.

Robert Burton

The Anatomy of Melancholy

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Accumulation of wealth

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Robert Burton

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The Anatomy of Melancholy

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Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1621 1620s 17th century

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Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy. Oxford: Henry Cripps, 1621, pt. 1.

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Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy, edited by Holbrook Jackson. New York Review Books, 2001, pt. 1.

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The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.

Hannah Arendt

The Life of the Mind

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Evil Unintended consequences

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Hannah Arendt

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The Life of the Mind

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Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

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Arendt, Hannah. The Life of the Mind. Vol. 1. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977, ch. 18.

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The abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a browner shade the evening of life.

Edward Gibbon

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Old age Passage of time Time

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Edward Gibbon

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Memoirs of My Life and Writings Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1794 1790s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Gibbon, Edward. "Memoirs of My Life and Writings." Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, edited by John Sheffield. Vol. 1, London: A Strahan and T. Cadell Jun. and W. David, 1796.

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Gibbon, Edward. Memoirs of My Life, edited by Betty Radice. Penguin, 1984.

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When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath travelled altogether behind him.

Francis Bacon

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Learning from travel Travel

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Francis Bacon

Source

Of Travel Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

Medium

Essay

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1625 1620s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Bacon, Francis "Of Travel." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

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Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Travel." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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The forest has fallen by the ax of our woodsmen; the soil has been made to teem by the tillage of our farmers; our commerce has whitened every ocean. The dominion of man over physical nature has been extended by the invention of our artists.

John Quincy Adams

Inaugural Address of John Quincy Adams

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Early America American expansion American prosperity American pride Man and nature

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John Quincy Adams

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Inaugural Address of John Quincy Adams Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1825 1820s 19th century

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Adams, John Quincy. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1825, House Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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The great mistake is that of looking upon men as virtuous or thinking that they can be made so by laws.

Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke

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Misunderstanding human nature Human nature

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Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke

Source

Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters

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English

Time

1728 1720s 17th century

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Lord Bolingbrooke. Quoted in Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, written by Joseph Spence, edited by Samuel Weller Singer. W. H. Carpenter, 1820.

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You know my name, but who are you? Just another American who saw too many movies as a child? Another orphan of a bankrupt culture who thinks he's John Wayne? Rambo? Marshal Dillon?

Die Hard

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American culture

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Hans Gruber

Actor

Alan Rickman

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Die Hard

Medium

Film

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Action (film) Thriller (film) Action Thriller

Language

English

Time

1988 1980s 20th century

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Die Hard. Directed by John McTiernan, Gordon Company/Silver Pictures, 1988.

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That all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Samuel Johnson

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Happiness

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Samuel Johnson

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James Boswell

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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D

Genre

Biography

Language

English

Time

1784 1780s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, written by James Boswell. Vol. 1, London: Charles Dilly, 1791, "1766," aetat. 57.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

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An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Lord Chesterfield

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Sticks and stones Words vs. actions

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Lord Chesterfield

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Letter

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English

Time

1746 1740s 18th century

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to his son. 9 Oct. 1746.

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One legislator accused me of having a nineteenth-century attitude on law and order. That is a totally false charge. I have an eighteenth-century attitude. That is when the Founding Fathers made it clear that the safety of law-abiding citizens should be one of the government's primary concerns.

Ronald Reagan

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Law and order Crime Purpose of government Government

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Ronald Reagan

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Speech

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Political speech

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English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Reagan, Ronald. Address to the Republican State Central Committee Convention. Republican State Central Committee Convention. 7 Sept. 1973, USA.

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Always the friend of my countrymen, never their flatterer, it becomes my duty to say to them from this high place to which their partiality has exalted me that there exists in the land a spirit hostile to their best interests—hostile to liberty itself. It is a spirit contracted in its views, selfish in its objects.

William Henry Harrison

Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison

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Pre-Civil War conflict American politics

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William Henry Harrison

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Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

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English

Time

1841 1840s 19th century

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Harrison, William Henry. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1841, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Pray without ceasing.

Apostle Paul

1st Thessalonians 5:17

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Prayer

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Apostle Paul

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1st Thessalonians The Bible

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Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Orders and commands

Language

Greek

Time

51 50s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (1st Thessalonians 5:17).

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It is finished.

Jesus

John 19:30

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Jesus's death The crucifixion

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Jesus

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Gospel of John The Bible

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Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

90 90s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (John 19:30).

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The best of all things for earthly men is not to be born and not to see the beams of the bright sun; but if born, then as quickly as possible to pass the gates of Hades, and to lie deep buried.

Theognis of Megara

Elegies

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Being born The human condition

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Theognis of Megara

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Elegies

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Poem

Language

Greek

Time

545 BC 540s BC 6th century BC

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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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