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The love of wealth is therefore to be traced, as either a principal or accessory motive, at the bottom of all that the Americans do; this gives to all their passions a sort of family likeness.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. De La Democratie en Amerique [Democracy in America]. Vol. 2, London: Saunders and Otley, 1840, bk. 3. ch. 17.

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II, translated by Henry Reeve. Bantam Classics, 2000, vol. 2, bk. 3. ch. 17.

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Notebook entry. 25 Oct. 1836.

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The story of our inferiority is an old dodge, as I have said: for wherever men oppress their fellows, wherever they enslave them, they will endeavor to find the needed apology for such enslavement and oppression in the character of the people oppressed and enslaved.

Frederick Douglass

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Douglass, Frederick. “What the Black Man Wants.” Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. 26 Jan. 1865, Boston, MA, USA.

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Douglass, Frederick. Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass. Dover Publications, 2013.

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In the true marriage relation, the independence of the husband and wife is equal, the dependence mutual and their obligations reciprocal.

Lucretia Mott

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Mott, Lucretia. Spoken by Mott and written down by Susan B. Anthony. c. 1829.

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A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

Lew Wallace

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Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ

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Wallace, Lew. Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ. Harper & Brothers, 1880, bk. 5, ch. 7.

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The vague, crepuscular time; the time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that resemble regrets, when youth has passed, but old age has not yet arrived.

Ivan Turgenev

Fathers and Sons

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Turgenev, Ivan. "Отцы и дети [Fathers and Sons]." The Russian Messenger, 1862.

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Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers and Sons, translated by Richard Freeborn. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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To recognise that the soul of a man is unknowable, is the ultimate achievement of wisdom. The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

Oscar Wilde

De Profundis

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Wilde, Oscar. Letter to Lord Alfred Douglas. Jan.-Mar. 1897.

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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion. It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventure of the Naval Treaty

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty." The Strand Magazine. London, 1893.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Naval Treaty." The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2023.

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God is stupidity and cowardice; God is hypocrisy and falsehood. God is tyranny and poverty; God is evil. For as long as men bow before altars, mankind will remain damned, the slaves of kings and priests.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The System of Economic Contradictions

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Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph. Systeme des contradictions economiques ou Philosophie de la misere [The System of Economic Contractictions, or Philosophy of Misery]. Paris: Chez Guilla umin et Cie, 1846, ch. 8.

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Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them, like gold in the ore, that the mass derives its whole value: and the precious particles are generally combined with the baser in such a manner that the separation is a task of the utmost difficulty.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "History." Edinburgh Review, May 1828.

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The arbitrary separation of citizens on the basis of race while they are on a public highway is a badge of servitude wholly inconsistent with the civil freedom and the equality before the law established by the Constitution... We boast of the freedom enjoyed by our people above all other peoples. But it is difficult to reconcile that boast with a state of the law which, practically, puts the brand of servitude and degradation upon a large class of our fellow citizens, our equals before the law. The thin disguise of "equal" accommodations for passengers in railroad coaches will not mislead anyone, nor atone for the wrong this day done.

John Marshall Harlan

Plessy v. Ferguson

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Harlan, John Marshall. Dissenting Opinion. Plessy v. Ferguson. United States Reports, vol. 163, 18 May 1896, pp. 552-564. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/163/537/.

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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community in which you live.

Edgar W. Howe

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Howe, Edgar W. Country Town Sayings: A Collection of Paragraphs from the Atchison Globe. Crane, 1911.

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To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand; it is the cruelest trial reserved for self-devotion; it is what must have oftenest wrung the heart of the Son of man; and if God could suffer, it would be the wound we should be forever inflicting upon Him. He also-He above all-is the great misunderstood, the least comprehended.

Henri-Frederic Amiel

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Amiel, Henri-Frederic. Journal entry. 27 May 1849.

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Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; to it nothing would be uncertain. And the future as the past would be present to its eyes.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

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Laplace, Pierre-Simon. Theorie Analytique des Probabilities [Analytic Theory of Probability]. Paris: Madame Va Courcier, 1812.

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The strongest of all warriors are these two-Time and Patience.

Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace

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Tolstoy, Leo. "Война и миръ [War and Peace]." The Russian Messenger, 1865-1867. Serial.

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Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Oxford University Press, 2010.

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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass

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Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, preface.

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Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass: The Complete 1855 and 1891-2 Editions. Library of America, 2011, preface to 1855 edition.

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Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina

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Tolstoy, Leo. Анна Каренина [Anna Karenina]. The Russian Messenger, 1875-1877. Serial.

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Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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One must have chaos inside oneself to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen [Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None]. Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeitzner, 1883, pt. 1.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, edited by Robert Pippin, translated by Adrian Del Caro. Cambridge University Press, 2006, pt. 1.

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