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All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

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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I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before.

Mark Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, ch. 43.

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Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, edited by R. Kent Rasmussen. Penguin Classics, 2014, ch. 43.

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Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts-not to hurt others.

George Eliot

Middlemarch

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Eliot, George. Middlemarch. Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1871–1872, bk. 1, ch. 6.

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Eliot, George. Middlemarch, edited by Rosemary Ashton. Penguin Classics, 2003, bk. 1, ch. 6.

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In historical events great men-so called-are but labels serving to give a name to the event, and like labels they have the least possible connection with the event itself.

Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace

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Tolstoy, Leo. "Война и миръ [War and Peace]." The Russian Messenger, 1865-1867. Serial.

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Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Oxford University Press, 2010.

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Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

Mark Twain

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 20. Originally from Notebook, c. 1889.

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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

John Stuart Mill

On Liberty

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Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: J.W. Parker and Son, 1859, ch. 5.

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Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 5.

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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

Henry David Thoreau

Walden

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

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

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There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

Abraham Lincoln

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Lincoln, Abraham. "The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions." 27 Jan. 1838, Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, IL, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Address to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, January 27, 1838." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

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Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones, 1818, ch. 10.

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Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text. Penguin Classics, 2018, ch. 10.

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Tis strange,—but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.

Lord Byron

Don Juan

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Lord Byron. Don Juan. London: John Hunt, 1823, canto 14, st. 101.

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Lord Byron. "Don Juan." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 14, st. 101.

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Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,
'Tis woman's whole existence.

Lord Byron

Don Juan

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Lord Byron. Don Juan. London: John Murray, 1819, canto 1, st. 194.

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Lord Byron. "Don Juan." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 1, st. 194.

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Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

Mark Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, notice.

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Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, edited by R. Kent Rasmussen. Penguin Classics, 2014, notice.

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At every step the natural light which illuminates their path grows dimmer and less secure; and that, in spite of all their efforts, they have as yet only discovered a small number of conflicting notions, on which the mind of man has been tossed about for thousands of years, without either laying a firmer grasp on truth, or finding novelty even in its errors.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. De La Democratie en Amerique [Democracy in America]. Vol. 2, London: Saunders and Otley, 1840, sect. 1, ch. 5.

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II, translated by Henry Reeve. Bantam Classics, 2000, vol. 2, sect. 1, ch. 5.

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Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride over all obstacles, and win the race!

Charles Dickens

The Personal History of David Copperfield

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Dickens, Charles. The Personal History of David Copperfield. London: Bradbury & Evans, Feb. 1850, issue 10, ch. 28.

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Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield, edited by Jeremy Tambling. Penguin Classics, 2004, ch. 28.

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The vision of Christ that thou dost see
Is my vision's greatest enemy.

William Blake

The Everlasting Gospel

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Blake, William. The Everlasting Gospel. c. 1818.

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Blake, William. "The Everlasting Gospel." Blake: Poems, edited by Peter Washington. Everyman's Library, 1994.

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To fill the hour—that is happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: Second Series (Emerson)

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Experience." Essays: Second Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1844.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Experience (1844)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after.

Lord Byron

Don Juan

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Lord Byron. Don Juan. London: John Murray, 1819, canto 2, st. 178.

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Lord Byron. "Don Juan." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 2, st. 178.

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Think of it, soldiers; from the summit of these pyramids, forty centuries look down upon you.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Speech to the French army in Egypt on July 21st, 1798, before the Battle of the Pyramids.

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Bonaparte, Napoleon. Quoted in Memoirs of the History of France During the Reign of Napoleon, written by Gaspard Gourgaud. Vol. 2, London: Henry Colburn, 1823. Originally stated during a speech prior to the Battle of the Pyramids [Battle of Embabeh]. 21 July 1798, Embabeh, Egypt.

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