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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

Oscar Wilde

Fortnightly Review

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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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And son, don't never ever trust whitey.

The Jerk

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The Jerk. Directed by Carl Reiner, Aspen Film Society, 1979.

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Just think, next time I shoot someone, I could be arrested.

Lt. Frank Drebin

Naked Gun

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Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad. Directed by David Zucker, Paramount Pictures, 1988.

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Youth and Age. c. 1828.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Youth and Age (1823)." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Cash Payment has become the sole nexus of man to men!

Thomas Carlyle

Chartism

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Carlyle, Thomas. Chartism. London: James Frases, 1840, ch. 6.

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Carlyle, Thomas. "Chartism." Thomas Carlyle: Selected Writings. Penguin Classics, 2015.

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I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,
I saw guns and sharp swords, in the hands of young children…
It's a hard rain's a gonna fall.

Bob Dylan

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

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Dylan, Bob. "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall." The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. Columbia Records, 1963.

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My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

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Brontë, Charlotte, [published as Currer Bell]. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. Vol. 2, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1847, ch. 24.

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Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics, 2006, ch. 24.

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Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

Thorstein Veblen

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Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions. Macmillan, 1899, ch. 4.

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Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class, edited by Martha Banta. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 4.

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Beggars should be no choosers.

John Heywood

Proverbs (Heywood)

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Heywood, John. The Proverbs of John Heywood. London: George Bell and Sons, 1874, pt. 1, ch. 10.

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I'm a connoisseur of roads. I've been tasting roads my whole life. This road will never end.

My Own Private Idaho

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My Own Private Idaho. Directed by Gus Van Sant, New Line Cinema, 1991.

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The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry.

The Shawshank Redemption

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The Shawshank Redemption. Directed by Frank Darabont, Castle Rock Entertainment, 1994.

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That rug really tied the room together, did it not?

The Big Lebowski

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The Big Lebowski. Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Working Title Films, 1998.

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Oh! dream of joy! is this indeed
The lighthouse top I see?
Is this the hill? Is this the kirk?
Is this mine one countree?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere." Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London: J. & A. Arch, 1798, pt. 1.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 1.

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The patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the tyranny of a king with the privileges of a few or the rule of a mob. They gave to us a republic, a government of, and by, and for the people, entrusting each generation to keep safe our founding creed. And for more than two hundred years, we have.

Barack Obama

Second Inaugural Address of Barack Obama

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Obama, Barack. "Second Inaugural Address." 21 Jan. 2013, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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The greatest gift you will ever give is your honest self.

Fred Rogers

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 81.

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Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.

Emily Dickinson

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Dickinson, Emily, [published anonymously]. "Success is Counted Sweetest." Brooklyn Daily Union, 27 April 1864, I. 1.

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Dickinson, Emily. "Success is Counted Sweetest." Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, edited by Cristanne Miller. Belknap Press, 2016, I. 1.

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