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More, Hannah. An address to the meeting in Spa Fields. 1817, London, England, UK.

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Sand, George. Impressions et Souvenirs [Impressions and Remembrances]. Paris: Michel Lévy, 1873, ch. 8.

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Blake, William. "To the Public." Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion. London, c. 1820.

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Blake, William. "Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. University of California Press, 2008.

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Wellesley, Arthur. Letter from the field of Waterloo. June 1815.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Madamoiselle Leroyer de Chantepie. 18 Mar. 1857.

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

Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.

Jules Laforgue

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Laforgue, Jules. "Complainte sur certains ennuis." Les Complaintes. Paris: Léon Vanier, 1885.

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Maistre, Joseph De. Lettres et Opuscules Inédits de Leibniz. Paris: Lagrange, 1854, letter 76. Originally a letter about Russia's new constitutional laws, 27 Aug. 1811.

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Colton, Charles Caleb. Lacon: Or Many Things In Few Words Addressed To Those Who Think. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820.

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Buchanan, James. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1857, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Personal journal entry. c. 1867.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "Von Ranke." Edinburgh Review, Oct. 1840.

I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight!

Louis Daguerre

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Tissandier, Gaston. A History and Handbook of Photography, edited by John Thomson, Sampson, Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1876, p. 24.

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Dickinson, Emily. "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891, I. 1.

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Dickinson, Emily. "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, edited by Cristanne Miller. Belknap Press, 2016, I. 1.

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Adams, John. Letter to Thomas Jefferson. 13 Nov. 1813.

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Adams, John. "1815: Adams to Jefferson: Quincy, November 13." The Adams-Jefferson Letters, edited by Lester J. Cappon. University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

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Bentham, Jeremy. Publicity in the Courts of Justice. 1843.

If you want something done right, do it yourself.

Charles-Guillaume Etienne

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Étienne, Charles-Guillaume. Bruïs et Palaprat. 1807, Théâtre-Français, Paris, France, sc. 3.

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Adams, John. Letter to Abigail Adams. 2 Nov. 1800.

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Adams, John. My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams, edited by Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor. Belknap Press, 2010.

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Brown, John. Quoted in John Brown and His Men, written by R. J. Hinton. Funk and Wagnals, 1894. Originally was his last written words, 2 Dec. 1859.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Maxime Du Camp. 26 June 1852.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Letters of Gustave Flaubert, edited by Richard Rumbold, translated by J. M. Cohen. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1950.

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Monroe, James. Message to Congress about The Monroe Doctrine. Seventh annual message to Congress. 2 Dec. 1823, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.