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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Edward Everett

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Everett, Edward. "A Good Idea." Salem Gazette, 14 Mar. 1937.

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Bailey, Philip John. Festus. London: William Pickering, 1839.

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Bailey, Philip John. Festus, edited by Mischa Willett. Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

"Whom are you?" he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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Ade, George. "The Steel Box." Chicago Record, 16 Mar. 1898.

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Wells, H. G. "The War of the Worlds." Pearson's Magazine/Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1897.

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Wells, H. G. The War of the Worlds. Signet, 2007, ch. 7.

Where the danger is, also grows the saving power.

Friedrich Hölderlin

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Hölderlin, Friedrich. Patmos. c. 1808.

Architecture in general is frozen music.

Friedrich von Schelling

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Schelling, Friedrich. Philosophie der Kunst [Philosophy of Art]. 1802-1803. Lecture series.

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Schelling, Friedrich. The Philosophy of Art, translated by Douglas W. Stott. University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. "A Liberal Education." 1868, Working Men's College, London, England, UK.

Days decrease,
And autumn grows, autumn in everything.

Robert Browning

Andrea del Sarto

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Browning, Robert. "Andrea del Sarto." Men and Women. London: Chapman and Hall, 1855, I. 44.

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Browning, Robert. "Andrea del Sarto." Robert Browning: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 44.

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Lee, Robert E. Spoken to a friend who condemned the North at the end of the war. c. 1865.

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Lee, Robert E. Quoted in The Civil War: An Illustrated History, by Geoffrey C. Ward. Alfred A. Knopf, 1990, ch. 5.

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Marshall, John. United States, Supreme Court. McCulloch v. Maryland. United States Reports, vol. 17, 5 Mar. 1819, pp. 316-437. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/17/316/.

All the news that's fit to print.

Adolph S. Ochs

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Ochs, Adolph. "Winning Slogan for the Times on the Web." The New York Times, 25 Oct. 1996, https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/specials/contest/.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell. "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table." The New England Magazine. Boston: Joseph T. Buckingham, Nov. 1831 and Feb. 1832.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Dover Publications, 2015.

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Casanova, Giacomo. Histoire de ma vie [History of My Life]. Paris, c. 1838.

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Casanova, Giacomo. History of My Life, vols. 9 & 10, translated by Willard R. Trask. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

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Lord Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. London: John Murray, 1812-1818, canto 3, st. 13.

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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 3, st. 13.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorismen zu Lebensweisheit: Varanesen und Maximen [Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life: Counsels and Maxims]." Parerga und Paralipomena. Vol. 1, Berlin: Druck und Verlag von U. W. Haan, 1851.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorisms on the wisdom of life." Parerga and Paralipomena, translated by Sabine Roehr and Christopher Janaway. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2016.

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Dickinson, Emily. "That Love Is All There Is." A Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime, edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Little, Brown and Company, 1914, I. 1.

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Dickinson, Emily. "That Love Is All There Is." Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, edited by Cristanne Miller. Belknap Press, 2016, I. 1.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Familiar Studies of Men and Books. London: Chatto & Windus, 1882.

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Chief Joseph. "I Will No Longer Fight Forever More." 5 Oct. 1877, Blaine County, Montana Territory, USA.

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Pasteur, Louis. Etudes Des Vin [On the studies of wine]. Paris: Librairie Savy, 1873.

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Hardy, Thomas [published anonymously]. "Far From the Madding Crowd." Cornhill Magazine, 1874.

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Hardy, Thomas. Far from the Madding Crowd, edited by Rosemarie Morgan. Penguin Classics, 2015.