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Baldwin, James. "Fifth Avenue, Uptown; A Letter from Harlem." Esquire, July 1960.

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Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 16.

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Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 16.

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Plath, Sylvia [published as Victoria Lucas]. The Bell Jar. William Heinemann, 1963.

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Reagan, Ronald. Interview. Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 1970.

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Carson, Rachel. The Sea Around Us. Oxford University Press, 1951, pt. 3.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the Property of its Restoration: Speech in Reply to Senator Douglas." 16 Oct. 1854, Peoria, IL, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act at Peoria, Illinois, October 16, 1854." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. Speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. 10 Dec. 1964, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

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Wolfe, Tom. The Bonfire of the Vanities. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1987.

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Marshall, John. United States, Supreme Court. McCulloch v. Maryland. United States Reports, vol. 17, 5 Mar. 1819, pp. 316-437. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/17/316/.

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Reagan, Ronald. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1981, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1937, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Second Inaugral Address: Washington, DC, January 20, 1937." Great Speeches, edited by John Grafton. Dover, 1999.

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Hemingway, Ernest. Remark to Aaron Hotchner. c. 1950.

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Hemingway, Ernest. Quoted in A Moveable Feast. Scribners, 2010, foreword.

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The Notorious B.I.G. "Juicy." Ready to Die. Bad Boy Records/Arista Records, 1994.

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Cather, Willa, My Ántonia. Houghton Mifflin, 1918, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. W. W. Norton & Co., 2015, bk. 1, ch. 1.

Man has his will,—but woman has her way!

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. "This Is It." The Atlantic Monthly. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, Dec. 1857.

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Twain, Mark. "Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany." 7 Oct. 1901, New York City, NY, USA.

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Twain, Mark. "Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany." Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays 1891-1910, edited by Louis J. Budd. Library of America, 1992.

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Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 6.

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Adams, Henry.Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 6.

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Tuchman, Barbara W. The Guns of August. Macmillan, 1962, ch. 2.

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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to John Adams. 15 Aug. 1820.

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Jefferson, Thomas. "John Adams, Aug. 15, 1820." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Autobiography, The Declaration of Independence & His Public and Private Letters, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library, 1998.

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Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 24.

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Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 24.