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Hair is everything. We wish it wasn’t so we could actually think about something else occasionally. But it is. It’s the difference between a good day and a bad day. We’re meant to think that it’s a symbol of power, that it’s a symbol of fertility.

Fleabag

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Physical appearance

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Fleabag

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Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Source

Fleabag

Medium

TV program

Genre

Comedy (TV) Drama (TV) Comedy Drama

Language

English

Time

2019 2010s 21st century

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"Episode #2.5." Fleabag, written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, directed by Harry Bradbeer, season 2, episode 5, Amazon Studios and British Broadcasting Corporation, 2019.

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Never give up and good luck will find you.

The NeverEnding Story

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Persistence Determination Never giving up

Speaker

Falkor

Actor

Alan Oppenheimer

Source

The NeverEnding Story

Medium

Film

Genre

Fantasy (film) Fantasy

Language

English

Time

1984 1980s 20th century

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The NeverEnding Story. Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, Neue Constantin Film/Bavaria Film/Producers Sales Organization, 1984.

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What millions died-that Caesar might be great!

Thomas Campbell

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Great man theory of history

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Thomas Campbell

Source

Pleasures of Hope

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1799 1790s 18th century

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Campbell, Thomas. "Pleasures of Hope, Part II." The Pleasures of Hope; With Other Poems. Edinburgh: Jones Bull, c. 1800.

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Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Alexander Pope

An Essay on Man

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Pride Envy

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Alexander Pope

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An Essay on Man

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1733 1730s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." London: J. Wilford, 1733, ep.1, I. 125-126.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, ep. 1, l. 125-126.

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Life is an incurable disease.

Abraham Cowley

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Nature of life Life Pessimism

Author

Abraham Cowley

Source

To Dr. Scarborough Pindarique Odes

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1656 1650s 17th century

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Cowley, Abraham. "To Dr Scarborough." Poems written by A. Cowley. London: Humphrey Moseley, 1656, st. 6.

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You Americans, you're all the same. Always overdressing for the wrong occasions.

Raiders of the Lost Ark

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Americans

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Toht

Actor

Ronald Lacey

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Raiders of the Lost Ark

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Film

Genre

Action (film) Adventure (film) Action Adventure

Language

English

Time

1981 1980s 20th century

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Raiders of the Lost Ark. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Lucasfilm Ltd., 1981.

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The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.

Francis Bacon

Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

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Desire for power

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Francis Bacon

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Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1625 1620s 17th century

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

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

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Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

John Ruskin

The Eagle's Nest

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Wealth as burden Downsides of wealth

Speaker

John Ruskin

Source

The Eagle's Nest

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1872 1870s 19th century

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Ruskin, John. Lecture given at the University of Oxford. 22 Feb. 1872, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.

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Every piece of business strategy... Must be seen in its role in the perennial gale of creative destruction.

Joseph Schumpeter

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

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Business strategy Capitalism

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Joseph Schumpeter

Source

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

Genre

Economic literature Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

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Schumpeter, Joseph Alois. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. Harper & Brothers, 1942, pt. 2, ch. 7.

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Rob him of his illusions, and man would perish of very weariness and despair.

Anatole France

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Lies Delusion Human nature

Author

Anatole France

Source

The Bloom of Life

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

French

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

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France, Anatole. La Vie en Fleur [The Bloom of Life]. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1923, epilogue.

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He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.

Sir Thomas Browne

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Criticizing others Praising oneself

Author

Sir Thomas Browne

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Christian Morals

Genre

Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1682 1680s 17th century

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. Christian Morals. Cambridge: University Press, 1716, pt. 1, sect. 34.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Christian Morals (1716)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, pt. 1, sec. 34.

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Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Food

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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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The Physiology of Taste

Genre

Food writing

Language

French

Time

1825 1820s 19th century

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Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. The Physiology of Taste [Physiologie du Goût]. Paris, 1825, aph. 4.

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Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy, translated by M. F. K. Fisher. Vintage, 2011, aph. 4.

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War appears to be as old as mankind, but peace is a modern invention.

Henry Maine

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War and peace War Peace

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Henry Maine

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Lecture

Language

English

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

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Maine, Henry. "International Law: Its Origin and Sources." Whewell Lecture. 1887, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, UK.

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But evil is wrought by want of thought,
As well as want of heart!

Thomas Hood

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Thoughtlessness Heartlessness

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Thomas Hood

Source

The Lady's Dream

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Poem

Language

English

Time

1844 1840s 19th century

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Hood, Thomas. "The Lady's Dream." Hood’s Own. London: Edward Moxon, 1862. Originally published in Hood's Magazine and Comic Miscellany, 1844.

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The people people choose for friends
Your common sense appall,
But the people people marry
Are the queerest folk of all.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Judging others

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Source

Queer People

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Poem

Language

English

Time

1899 1890s 19th century

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Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Queer People. c. 1899.

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The slave trade is contrary to the laws of God and to the rights of men.

David Hartley (the Younger)

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Slave trade Slavery Human rights Natural law

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David Hartley (the Younger)

Source

A Memoir of Granville Sharp

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1776 1770s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Harley, David. Speech before the House of Commons. 1776, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

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Day her sultry fires had wasted. Calm and sweet the moonlight rose.

Thomas Campbell

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Dusk Moonlight

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Thomas Campbell

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The Turkish Lady

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1800 1800s 19th century

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Campbell, Thomas. The Turkish Lady. c. 1840.

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A compass, I learnt when I was surveying, it'll...it'll point you True North from where you're standing, but it's got no advice about the swamps and desert and chasm that you'll encounter along the way. If in pursuit of your destination, you plunge ahead, heedless of obstacles, and achieve nothing more than to sink in a swamp...what's the use of knowing True North?

Lincoln

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Overcoming obstacles

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Abraham Lincoln

Actor

Daniel Day-Lewis

Source

Lincoln

Medium

Film

Genre

Biography (film) Historical drama (film) Biography Historical drama

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

2012 2010s 21st century

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Lincoln. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Amblin Entertainment/Participant Media/20th Century Fox/DreamWorks Pictures/Reliance Entertainment/RatPac Entertainment/The Kennedy/Marshall Company/Dune Entertainment, 2012.

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England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted passage, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black sheep in it but with all its cupboards bursting with skeletons... A family with the wrong members in control.

George Orwell

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England

Author

George Orwell

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England Your England The Lion and the Unicorn

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

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Orwell, George. "England Your England." The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius. Searchlight Books, edited by T. R. Fyvel and George Orwell. Secker & Warburg, 1941, pt. 1, sec. 3.

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Orwell, George. "The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius." The Collected Essays, Journalism And Letters Of George Orwell, vol. 2: My Country Right or Left 1940-1943, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. David R. Godine, 2007, no. 17, pt. 1, sec. 3.

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Upon one point there is entire unanimity in public sentiment—that conflicting claims to the Presidency must be amicably and peaceably adjusted, and that when so adjusted the general acquiescence of the nation ought surely to follow.

Rutherford B. Hayes

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Inaugural Address of Rutherford B. Hayes

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Elections American politics

Speaker

Rutherford B. Hayes

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Inaugural Address of Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1877 1870s 19th century

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Hayes, Rutherford B. "Inaugural Address." 5 Mar. 1877, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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