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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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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 21. Originally from Notebook, c. 1894.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 29.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 29.

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

Karl Marx

The German Ideology

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Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. Die deutsche Ideologie [The German Ideology]. Marx–Engels–Lenin Institute, 1932.

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Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The German Ideology. Prometheus, 1998.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Crabbed Age and Youth." Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881, ch. 2.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Crabbed Age and Youth." Essays I: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, edited by Robert-Louis Abrahamson. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

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Jefferson, Thomas. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1801, Senate Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Brontë, Emily, [published as Ellis Bell]. Wuthering Heights. Vol. 2, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847, ch. 16.

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Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights, edited by Alexandra Lewis. W. W. Norton & Company, 2019, ch. 16.

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Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. London: John Murray, 1871, pt. 2, ch. 6.

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Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man. Penguin Classics, 2004, pt. 2, ch. 6.

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De Balzac, Honoré. La Comédie Humaine. Paris: Furne, 1842, Avec-Propos [preface].

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De Balzac, Honoré. The Human Comedy: At the Sign of the Cat & Racket and Other Works, translated by Clara Bell. Vol. 1, Houmena Press, 2008, Avec-Propos [preface].

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Lord Byron. Don Juan. London: John Murray, 1819, canto 1, st. 83.

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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. 83.

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Eliot, George. Daniel Deronda. London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1876, bk. 2, ch. 15.

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Eliot, George. Daniel Deronda. Oxford University Press, 2014, bk. 2, ch. 15.

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Lord Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. London: John Murray, 1812-1818, canto 4, st. 183.

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Lord Byron. "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 4, st. 183.

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Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1869, ch. 26.

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Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress. Random House Publishing Group, 2003, ch. 26.

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Edison, Thomas Alva. Interview. New York World, 17 Nov. 1895.

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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1866, epilogue.

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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical, edited by Lynda Mugglestone. Penguin Classics, 1995, epilogue.

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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey. 6 Jan. 1816.

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Jefferson, Thomas. "Colonel Charles Yancey, Jan. 6, 1816." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library Classics, 1998.

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Eliot, George. "Janet's Repentance." Blackwood's Magazine, Edinburgh/London: Scotland, UK, 1857, ch. 10.

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Eliot, George. "Janet's Repentance." Scenes of Clerical Life, edited by Thomas A. Noble. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 10.

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Twain, Mark. Tom Sawyer Abroad. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1894.

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Twain, Mark. "Tom Sawyer Abroad." Mark Twain: The Gilded Age & Later Novels, edited by Hamlin Hill. Library of America, 2002.

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Douglass, Frederick. "We are Confronted by a New Administration." 23rd Anniversary of the Emancipation of Slaves. 16 Apr. 1885, Lincoln Memorial Congregational Church, Washington, DC, USA.

The war is over-the rebels are our countrymen again.

Ulysses S. Grant

Preventing his men from cheering after Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox.

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Grant, Ulysses S. Preventing his men from cheering after Lee's surrender. 9 Apr. 1865, Appomattox Court House, Appomattox County, Virginia, USA.

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Grant, Ulysses S. Quoted in "Civil War: A Narrative." Written by Shelby Foote. Vol. 3, Modern Library, 2011.