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I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king.

Elizabeth I

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Queen Elizabeth I. Speech to her troops in the Spanish Armada. 9 Aug. 1588, Tilbury, England, UK.

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Queen Elizabeth I. Elizabeth I: Collected Works. University of Chicago Press, 2000.

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Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Disraeli, Benjamin. Speech about meanings and origin of on the side of the angels. Oxford Diocesan Conference. 25 Nov. 1864, Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, England, UK.

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We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

Abraham Lincoln

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Lincoln, Abraham. Speech at Springfield, IL. 4 Oct. 1854, Springfield, IL, USA.

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A little fall of rain can hardly hurt me now.

Les Miserables

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"A Little Fall of Rain." Les Misérables. Directed by Tom Hooper, performed by Samantha Barks, Cameron Mackintosh Ltd/Working Title Films, 2012.

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Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

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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.

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Irritated by no literary altercation, animated by no public debate, heated by no party animosity, I read it with great satisfaction, as the result of good heads prompted by good hearts, as an experiment better adapted to the genius, character, situation, and relations of this nation and country than any which had ever been proposed or suggested.

John Adams

Inaugural Address of John Adams

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Adams, John. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1797, House Chamber, Congress Hall, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

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I'm not sitting here because I'm some little woman standing by my man, like Tammy Wynette. I am sitting here because I love him and I respect him, and I honor what he's been through and what we've been through together.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

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Clinton, Hillary. Interview on 60 Minutes. CBS-TV, 26 Jan. 1992.

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There’s only one thing I hate more than lying: skim milk. Which is water that's lying about being milk.

Ron Swanson

Parks and Recreation

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"Partridge." Parks and Recreation, written by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur and Dave King, directed by Tristram Shapeero, season 5, episode 17, Deedle-Dee Productions and Fremulon, 2013.

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A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

Dr. Hannibal Lecter

The Silence of the Lambs

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The Silence of the Lambs. Directed by Jonathan Demme, Strong Heart Productions, 1991.

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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Oscar Wilde

Lady Windermere's Fan

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Wilde, Oscar. Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman. 1892, St James's Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2.

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Wilde, Oscar. "Lady Windermere's Fan." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 2.

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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Andrew Carnegie

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Carnegie, Andrew. "The Best Fields for Philanthropy." North American Review, 25 Nov. 1889.

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Carnegie, Andrew. "The Best Fields for Philanthropy." The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings. Penguin Classics, 2006.

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If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair

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Thackeray, William Makepeace. "Vanity Fair." Punch, Jan. 1847-July 1848. Monthly serial.

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Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair, edited by John Carey. Penguin Classics, 2013.

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Common sense is actually nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind prior to the age of eighteen.

Albert Einstein

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Einstein, Albert. Quoted in The Universe and Dr. Eistein. Written by Lincoln Barnett. Sloane, 1950. Originally printed in Harpers, 1948.

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To do a great right, do a little wrong.

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice

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Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice. c. 1598, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Merchant of Venice." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 1.

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That inflexible and uniform adherence to the rights of the Constitution, and of individuals, which we perceive to be indispensable in the courts of justice, can certainly not be expected from judges who hold their offices by a temporary commission.

Alexander Hamilton

Federalist 78

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Hamilton, Alexander [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 78: The Judiciary Department." The Federalist, A Collection of Essays." New York: J. and A. McLean, 1788.

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Hamilton, Alexander. "No. 78: Duration in office: good behavior. Why needed.--Hamilton." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

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