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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Sonnets from the Portuguese. London: Chapman and Hall, 1850, sonnet 43.

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. "Sonnets from the Portuguese." Aurora Leigh and Other Poems, edited by John Robert Glorney Bolton and Julia Bolton Holloway. Penguin Classics, 1996, sonnet 43.

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Whistler, James McNeill. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies. London: William Heinemann, 1890.

I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.
I woke-and found that life was duty.

Ellen Sturgis Hooper

Beauty and Duty

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Hooper, Ellen Sturgis. "I Slept, and Dreamed that Life was Beauty." The Dial, July 1840.

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Moore, Clement Clarke. "Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas." Sentinel, 23 Dec. 1823.

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Moore, Clement Clarke. The Night Before Christmas. Applesauce Press, 2011.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Jacques Delille

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Delille, Jacques. La Pitié, poeme en quatre chants. Brunswick: F. Vieweg, c. 1804, canto 1.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life: What a Man Has." 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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Ibsen, Henrik. Samfundets støtter [The Pillars of Society]. Kobenhavn: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, 1877, act 3.

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Ibsen, Henrik. "Pillars of the Community." A Doll's House and Other Plays, translated by Deborah Dawkin and Erik Skuggevik. Penguin Classics, 2016, act 3.

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher. "Woman's Sphere." The Chimney-Corner. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Louise Colet. 3 Nov. 1851.

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Flaubert, Gustave. The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1830-1857, translated and edited by Francis Steegmuller. Faber and Faber, 1981.

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Tennyson, Alfred. "Ulysses." Poems. Vol. 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1842, I. 74.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "Ulysses." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 74.

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Hazlitt, William. "On Wit and Humour." Lectures on the English Comic Writers. c. 1818, Surrey Institution, London, England, UK.

You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

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Vanderbilt, Cornelius. Letter to Charles Morgan and C. K. Garrison. c. 1853.

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Yeats, William Butler. The Land of Heart's Desire. 1894, Avenue Theatre, London, England, UK.

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Yeats, William Butler. "The Land of Heart's Desire." Yeats's Poetry, Drama and Prose. W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Aurora Leigh. London: Chapman & Hall, 1857, bk. 6.

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Aurora Leigh. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 6.

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Rimbaud, Arthur. "Le Bateau Ivre [The Drunken Boat]." Les Poetes Maudits, edited by Paul Verlaine. Paris, 1884.

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Rimbaud, Arthur. "Le bateau ivre/The Drunken Boat." Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters, a Bilingual Edition, translated by Wallace Fowlie. University of Chicago Press, 2005.

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Meredith, George. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: A History of Father and Son. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859, ch. 1.

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Gauguin, Paul. "Un lettre de paul gauguin: a propos de sevres et du demier." Le Soir, 25 Apr. 1895.

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Gauguin, Paul. The Writings of a Savage, translated by Eleanor Levieux, edited by Daniel Guérin. Da Capo Press, 1996.

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Bryan, William Jennings. "Cross of Gold." National Democratic Convention. 9 July 1896, Chicago Coliseum, Chicago, IL, USA. Address.

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Bryan, William Jennings. The Cross of Gold. University of Nebraska Press, 1996.

Oh Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!

Jane Welsh Carlyle

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Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Letter to Eliza Stodart. 29 Feb. 1836.

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Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Jane Carlyle: Newly Selected Letters, edited by David R. Sorensen and Kenneth J. Fielding. Routledge, 2004, ch. 3.

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution [The Ancien Régime and the Revolution]. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1856, foreward.

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. The Ancien Regime and the Revolution, translated by Gerald Bevan. Penguin Classics, 2008, foreward.