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If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Longworth, Alice Roosevelt. Embroidered on a pillow in her sitting room. c. 1980.

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If you trap the moment before it's ripe,
The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe;
But if once you let the ripe moment go
You can never wipe off the tears of woe.

William Blake

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Blake, William. Poem written in his notebook. c. 1792.

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Blake, William. "If you trap the moment before its ripe." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

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There are no necessary evils in the government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favor alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.

Andrew Jackson

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Jackson, Andrew. Veto message on bank bill. Congress meeting. 10 July 1832, U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth.

Song of Solomon 3:1

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Song of Solomon 3:1).

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No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter: A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1850, ch. 20.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, edited by Brian Harding. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 20.

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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science.

Charles Macklin

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Love a la Mode

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Macklin, Charles. Love a la Mode. c. 1759, Drury Lane Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 1.

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If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success with it.

Sigmund Freud

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Freud, Sigmund. "Eine Kindheitserinnerung aus 'Dichtung und Wahrheit [A Childhood Recollection from 'Dichtung und Warheit [Poetry and Truth].'" Zeitschrift für Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf die Geisteswissenschaften [Journal of the Application of Psychoanalysis to the Humanities]. Vol. 5, 1917, pp. 49–57.

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Freud, Sigmund. "A Childhood Recollection from 'Dichtung Und Wahrheit.'" The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: An Infantile Neurosis and Other Works, translated by James Strachey. Vol. 17, Vintage, 2001.

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Brevity is the soul of wit.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 2, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 2.

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O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.

David

1st Chronicles 16:34

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (1st Chronicles 16:34).

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So, loath to suffer mute,
We, peopling the void air,
Make Gods to whom to impute
The ills we ought to bear.

Matthew Arnold

Empedocles on Etna

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Arnold, Matthew, [published as A]. "Empedocles on Etna." Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems. London: B. Fellowes, 1852, act 1, sc. 2.

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Such is the delight of mental superiority , that none on, whom nature or study have conferred it, would purchase the gifts of fortune by its loss.

Samuel Johnson

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Johnson, Samuel. The Rambler. London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 24 Aug. 1751.

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And the swine…is unclean to you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch. They are unclean to you.

God

Leviticus 11:7-8

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The Holy Bible, New King James Version. Thomas Nelson, 1982. (Leviticus 11:7-8).

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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.

Matthew Arnold

Democracy

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Arnold, Matthew. "Democracy." The Popular Education of France: With Notices of that of Holland and Switzerland. Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861.

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Arnold, Matthew. "Democracy." Culture and Anarchy and Other Selected Prose. Penguin Classics, 2015.

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Extremes meet.

Louis Sebastian Mercier

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Mercier, Louis-Sebastien. "Les Extremes se touchent." Tableau de Paris. Amsterdam, 1782, vol. 4, ch. 348.

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A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, men of the west!

Viggo Mortensen

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Directed by Peter Jackson, New Line Cinema, 2003.

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I am haunted by waters.

Norman Maclean

A River Runs Through It

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Maclean, Norman. "A River Runs Through it." A River Runs Through It and Other Stories. University of Chicago Press, 1976.

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An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

Gerald Ford

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Ford, Gerald. Remarks in the U.S. House of Representatives in an effort to impeach Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. House of Representatives meeting. 15 Apr. 1970, House of Representatives Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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I mean, there could be a black president one day, but…You don’t wanna be the first one. I mean the second or third that's fine, but…that first nigga better watch out.

Dave Chappelle

Killin' Them Softly

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Chappelle, Dave. Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly. HBO, 26 July 2000.

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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.

Thomas More

Utopia

On the citizens of Utopia.

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More, Thomas. Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia. Leuven: Self-published, 1516, bk. 2.

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