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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Henry David Thoreau

Walden

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Conclusion." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Conclusion." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 3, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 15.

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 15.

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

Mark Twain

Pudd'nhead Wilson

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." The Century Magazine, Nov. 1893-Oct. 1894.

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." Pudd'nHead Wilson and Other Tales, edited by R.D. Gooder. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Man will err while yet he strives.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Prolog im Himmel [Prologue in Heaven: The Wager]." Faust. Eine Tragödie [Faust: A Tragedy]. Tübingen: J. G. Cotta’schen Buchhandlung, 1808.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Prologue in Heaven." Faust, Part One, edited by David Luke. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities

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Dickens, Charles. "A Tale of Two Cities." London: Chapman & Hall. April-Nov. 1859. Weekly serial.

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Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities, edited by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. W. W. Norton & Company, 2019, bk. 1, ch. 3.

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Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

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Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 38.

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Twain, Mark. "Following the Equator." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 38.

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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities

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Dickens, Charles. "A Tale of Two Cities." London: Chapman & Hall. April-Nov. 1859. Weekly serial.

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Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities, edited by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. W. W. Norton & Company, 2019, bk. 3, ch. 15.

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The eternal error men make in imagining that happiness consists in the gratification of their wishes.

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina

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Tolstoy, Leo. Анна Каренина [Anna Karenina]. The Russian Messenger, 1875-1877. Serial.

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Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

Pudd'nhead Wilson

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." The Century Magazine, Nov. 1893-Oct. 1894.

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." Pudd'nHead Wilson and Other Tales, edited by R.D. Gooder. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist

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Dickens, Charles. "Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress." Bentley's Miscellany. London: Richard Bentley, July 1837, issue 5, ch. 10.

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Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. Penguin, 2003, ch. 10.

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The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto

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Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels [published anonymously]. Manifest der kommunistischen Partei [Manifesto of the Communist Party]. London: Gedruckt in der Office der Bildungs-Gesellschaft für Arbeiter, 1848.

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Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto, translated by Samuel Moore and Friedrich Engels. Penguin Classics, 2002.

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One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.

Jane Austen

Persuasion

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Austen, Jane. Persuasion. London: John Murray, 1818, ch. 13.

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Austen, Jane. Persuasion. Penguin, 2003, ch. 13.

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The sooner every party breaks up, the better.

Jane Austen

Emma

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Austen, Jane. Emma. Vol. 2, London: John Murray, 1816, ch. 7.

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Austen, Jane. Emma, edited by Fiona Stafford. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 7.

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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 3, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 16.

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 16.

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Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

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Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 66.

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Twain, Mark. "Following the Equator." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 66.

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