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Hardy, Thomas. "The Hand of Ethelberta." Cornhill Magazine, July 1875-May 1876. Monthly serial.

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Hardy, Thomas. The Hand of Ethelberta, edited by Tim Dolin. Penguin Classics, 1998.

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Bonaparte, Napoleon. Note sur L'Etablissement D'Ecouen [Note on the establishment of Écouen]. 15 May 1807.

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Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Premature Burial." The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper, July 1844.

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Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Premature Burial." Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, edited by Patrick F. Quinn. Library of America, 1984.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Matthew Arnold

God and the Bible

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Arnold, Matthew. God and the Bible. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1875.

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Madison, James. Letter to George Thomson. 30 June 1825.

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Madison, James. "Political Observations, 20 Apr. 1795." Founders Online, National Archives. Founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-15-02-0423.

A man is so in the way in the house.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Cranford

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Gaskell, Elizabeth. "Cranford." Household Words, 1851-1853.

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Gaskell, Elizabeth. Cranford. Oxford University Press, 2011, ch. 1.

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Lord Byron. Don Juan. London: John Murray, 1821, canto 3, st. 86.

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Lord Byron. "Don Juan." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 3, st. 86.

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Keats, John. Endymion: A Poetic Romance. London: Taylor & Hessey, 1818, bk. 1, l. 1.

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Keats, John. "Endymion." John Keats: The Major Works, edited by Elizabeth Cook. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 1, I. 1.

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Lincoln, Abraham. Response to a serenade. 10 Nov. 1864, Washington, DC, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Response to a serenade, November 10, 1864." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings: 1859-1865. Library of America, 1989.

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Hardy, Thomas. "Jude the Obscure." Harper's New Monthly, Dec. 1894.

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Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure, edited by Ralph Pite. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016.

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Marx, Karl. Zur Kritik der Politischen Ă–konomie [On the Critique of Political Economy]. Berlin: Franz Duncker, 1859, preface.

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Marx, Karl. Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, edited by Maurice Dobb. International Publishers, 2022, preface.

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Grant, Ulysses S. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1873, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Tennyson, Alfred. "Lancelot and Elaine." Idylls of the King. London: Edward Moxon, 1859, I. 1082.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "Lancelot and Elaine." Idylls of the King, edited by J. M. Gray. Penguin Classics, 1989, I. 1082.

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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to William Charles Jarvis. 28 Sept. 1820.

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Wilde, Oscar. "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young." The Chameleon. London: Gay and Bird, 1894.

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Wilde, Oscar. "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Lord Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. London: John Murray, 1812-1818, canto 4, st. 145.

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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. 145.

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Carlyle, Thomas. "The Hero as Man of Letters." 19 May 1840, London, England, UK. Lecture.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Philadelphia, July 1890, ch. 2.

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Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 2.

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Douglass, Frederick. "The Present and Future of the Colored Race in America." 15 May 1863, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York City, NY, USA.

Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The Virginians

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Thackeray, William Makepeace. The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century. Bradbury and Evans, 1 Nov. 1857 - 1 Nov. 1859.