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She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed;
She is a woman, therefore to be won.

William Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part 1

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Shakespeare, William. Henry VI, Part 1. Lord Strange's Men, 1592, Rose Theatre, London, England, UK, act 5, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "The First Part of Henry the Sixth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 3.

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All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble... a life of ease is not for any man, nor for any god.

Thomas Carlyle

Past and Present

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Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present. London: Chapman and Hall, 1843, bk. 3, ch. 4.

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Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present, edited by David R. Sorensen and Brent E. Kinser. Oxford University Press, 2023, bk. 3, ch. 4.

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You see things and you understand. You're a wallflower.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Directed by Stephen Chbosky, Mr. Mudd Productions, 2012.

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When the grim reaper comes to get me, he'll have to give me a few extra hours to revise my last words.

Flannery O'Connor

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O'Connor, Flannery. Letter to Catharine Carver. 27 Mar. 1959.

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Samuel Johnson

Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, by James Boswell

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 19 Sept. 1777.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

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Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.

Andrea Dworkin

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Dworkin, Andrea. Pornography: Men Possessing Women. Putnam, 1981.

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Full nakedness, all joys are due to thee.
As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be,
To taste whole joys.

John Donne

The Harmony of the Muses

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Donne, John. "To His Mistress Going to Bed." The Harmony of the Muses. London: William Gilbertson, 1654, I. 33.

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Donne, John. "Elegy: To His Mistress Going to Bed." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2007, I. 33.

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War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

Thomas Hardy

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Hardy, Thomas. The Dynasts. Vol. 1, MacMillan & Co., 1904, pt. 1, act 1, sc. 5.

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It's not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting ideas and thinking.

Beauty and the Beast

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Beauty and the Beast. Directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Feature Animation/Silver Screen Partners, 1991.

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Women are really much nicer than men:
No wonder we like them.

Kingsley Amis

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Amis, Kingsley. "A Bookshop Idyll." A Case of Samples: Poems 1946–1956. Gollancz, 1956.

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That's been one of my mantras-focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Steve Jobs

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Jobs, Steve. "Steve Jobs: 'There's Sanity Returning'." Interviewed by Andy Reinhardt. BusinessWeek, 25 May 1998.

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I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.

William Faulkner

Quoted in Paris Review

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Faulkner, William. "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12." Interviewed by Jean Stein. Paris Review, Spring 1956.

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Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it come to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau

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Thoreau, Henry David. Journal entry. 22 Nov. 1839.

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Thoreau, Henry David. The Heart of Thoreau's Journals, edited by Odell Shepard. Dover Publications, 1961.

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Hebraism and Hellenism,—between these two points of influence moves our world.

Matthew Arnold

Culture and Anarchy

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Arnold, Matthew. "Hebraism and Hellenism." Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1869. Originally published in Cornhill Magazine, 1867–68.

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I'll tell you why. For the same reason that there is a liquor store on almost every corner in the black community. Why? They want us to kill ourselves.

Furious Styles

Boyz n the Hood

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Boyz n the Hood. Directed by John Singleton, Columbia Pictures, 1991.

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There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred Tennyson

In Memoriam A.H.H.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. In Memoriam A.H.H. London: Edward Moxon, 1850, pt. 96, st. 3.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "In Memoriam A.H.H." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 96, st. 3.

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An accident of timing makes the book in question indelible.

Colson Whitehead

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Whitehead, Colson. "The Hum Inside the Skull, Revisited." The New York Times, 16 Jan. 2005.

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There is nothing—absolute nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows

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Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, 1908, ch. 1.

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Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Barnes & Noble, 2013, ch. 1.

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Ezra Pound

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Pound, Ezra. Letter to Harriet Monroe. 7 Nov. 1913.

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What female heart can gold despise?
What cat's averse to fish?

Thomas Gray

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Gray, Thomas. "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes." Collection of Poems by Several Hands. Vol. 2, London, 1748. Originally sent in a letter to Horace Walpole, 1 Mar. 1747.

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