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Jackson, Andrew. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1833, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Harrison, William Henry. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1841, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Public and Private Education." 27 Nov. 1864, Boston, MA, USA.

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Chekhov, Anton. Dyadya Vanya. 1897, act 1.

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Chekhov, Anton. "Uncle Vanya." Plays: Ivanov; The Seagull' Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard, translated by Peter Carson. Penguin Classics, 2002, act 1.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Friendship." Essays: First Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Friendship." The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Brooks Atkinson. Modern Library, 2000.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Soul of Man Under Socialism." Fortnightly Review. London: Chapman and Hall, Feb. 1891.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Soul of Man Under Socialism." The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose, edited by Linda Dowling. Penguin Classics, 2001.

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Monroe, James. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1817, Front steps, Old Brick Capitol, Washington, DC, USA.

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Wells, H. G. "Lord of the Dynamos." Pall Mall Budget, 6 Sept. 1894.

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Wells, H. G. "Lord of the Dynamos." Selected Stories of H. G. Wells, edited by Ursula K. Le Guin. Modern Library, 2004.

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Wilde, Oscar. "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime." Lord Arthur Savile's Crime: The Portrait of Mr. W.H. and Other Stories. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1891.

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Wilde, Oscar. "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Lothair

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Disraeli, Benjamin. Lothair. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1870, ch. 79.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at Cooper Institute, New York City." 27 Feb. 1860, New York City, NY, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at Cooper Institute, New York City, February 27, 1860." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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

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Delacroix, Eugène. Journal entry. 14 March 1858.

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Delacroix, Eugène. The Journal of Eugène Delacroix: A Selection, translated by Lucy Norton, edited by Hubert Wellington. Phaidon, 1995.

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Gilbert, William Schwenck. The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty. Composed by Arthur Sullivan. 31 Dec. 1879, Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York City, NY, USA. act. 1.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Jules Verne

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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Verne, Jules. "Vingt mille lieues sous les mers [Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas]." Magasin d'éducation et de récréation, Mar. 1869 - Jun. 1870. Serial.

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Verne, Jules. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, edited and translated by David Coward. Penguin Classics, 2017.

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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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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Study in Scarlet." Beeton's Christmas Annual. London: Ward Lock & Co., 1887.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2012, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 1.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 1.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of this world justifies.

Rudyard Kipling

The Phantom Rickshaw

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Kipling, Rudyard. "The Phantom 'Rickshaw." The Phantom 'Rickshaw & other Eerie Tales. Prayagraj: A. H. Wheeler & Co., 1888.

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Kipling, Rudyard. "The Phantom 'Rickshaw." The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories. Dover Publications, 2013.