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Garfield, James A. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1881, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Mill, John Stuart. Principles of Political Economy. London: John W. Parker, 1848, bk. 2, ch. 1, sect. 6.

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Mill, John Stuart. "Principles of Political Economy." Principles of Political Economy with Chapters on Socialism, edited by Jonathan Riley. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 2, ch. 1, sect. 6.

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Hegel, G. W. F. Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts [Fundamentals of the Philosophy of Law]. c. 1820, sect. 318.

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Hegel, G. W. F. Outlines of the Philosophy of Right, translated by T. M. Knox. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Wilde, Oscar. A Woman of No Importance. 1893, Haymarket Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2.

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Wilde, Oscar. "A Woman of No Importance." The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 2.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples." Posthumous Poems. London: John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824, I. 18.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Stanzas Written in Dejection-December 1818, near Naples." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 18.

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James, Henry. "The Portrait of a Lady." The Atlantic Monthly/Macmillan's Magazine, 1880–81.

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James, Henry. The Portrait of a Lady, edited by Roger Luckhurst. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Harrison, Benjamin. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1889, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Harrison, Benjamin. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1889, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

Matthew Arnold

A Word About America

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Arnold, Matthew. "A Word About America." The Nineteenth Century. London: Kegan Paul, May 1882.

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Hood, Thomas. "Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg." New Monthly Magazine, Oct. 1840 - Feb. 1841.

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Hood, Thomas. "Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg." Selected Poems of Thomas Hood. Harvard University Press, 1970.

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Hazlitt, William. "Nicknames." Sketches and Essays. London: John Templeman, 1839.

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Adams, John Quincy. "An Oration, Delivered at Plymouth." University Commemoration of the First Landing of Our Ancestors At That Place. 22 Dec. 1802, Plymouth, MA, USA.

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Arnold, Matthew, [published as A]. "Empedocles on Etna." Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems. London: B. Fellowes, 1852, act 1, sc. 2.

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Fuller, Margaret. "The Great Lawsuit - Man versus Men: Woman versus Women." The Dial, July 1843.

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Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Dover Publications, 1999.

Gift, like genius, I often think, only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Ellice Hopkins

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Hopkins, Jane Ellice. Work Amongst Working Men. Strahan and Company, 1879, ch. 4.

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Brontë, Charlotte. "We wove a web in childhood." 1835.

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Brontë, Charlotte. "From 'Retrospection.'" Brontës: Selected Poems, edited by Pamela Norris. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2023.

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Arnold, Matthew. "Resignation." The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems. London: B. Fellowes, 1849, I. 213.

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Arnold, Matthew. "Resignation." Dover Beach and Other Poems. Dover Publications, 2012, I. 213.

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Lamb, Charles [published as Elia]. "Popular Fallacies: IX, That the Worst Puns Are the Best." The London Magazine, 1826.