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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." The Century Magazine, Nov. 1893-Oct. 1894.

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." Pudd'nHead Wilson and Other Tales, edited by R.D. Gooder. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Virgil. Georgica [Georgics]. c. 29 BCE, bk. 2.

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Virgil. "The Georgics." The Eclogues and The Georgics, translated by C. Day Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Two Gentlemen of Verona." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 3, sc. 1.

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

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Horace. Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters]. 20 BC, bk. 1, epistle 2.

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Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1, epistle 2.

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Virgil. Eclogae [Eclogues]. c. 30 BC, no. 9.

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Virgil. "The Eclogues." The Eclogues and The Georgics, translated by C. Day Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2009, no. 9.

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Plutarch. "Περὶ παίδων ἀγωγῆς [On the Education of Children]." Ἠθικά Ethika [Moralia]. c. 100 AD.

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Shakespeare, William. Henry the Sixth, Part 3. London: Thomas Millington, 1595, act 5, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Third Part of Henry the Sixth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 2.

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

Ida B. Wells

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Wells, Ida B. "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases." 5 Oct. 1892, New York City, NY, USA.

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Wells, Ida B. "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases." Great Speeches by American Women. Dover Publications, 2012.

Sons are the anchors of a mother's life.

Sophocles

Phaedra

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Sophocles. Phaedra. c. 5th century BC, fragment 612.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Philadelphia, July 1890, ch. 3.

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Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 4.

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Dickens, Charles. "Great Expectations." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, 22 Dec. 1860, issue 4, ch. 6.

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Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 6.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]. c. 55 BC, bk. 4, l. 637.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. The Nature of Things, translated by Alicia Stallings. Penguin Classics, 2007, bk. 4, l. 637.

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Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, satire 13.

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Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 13.

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Sophocles. Ἀντιγόνη [Antigone]. c. 441 BC, Festival of Dionysus, Athens, Greece.

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Sophocles. "Antigone." The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Mariner Books, 2002.

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Twain, Mark. Letter to Annie Moffett Webster. 1 Sept. 1876.

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Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Hogarth Press/Harcourt Brace & Co., 1929, ch. 1.

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Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Mariner Books, 2005, ch. 1.

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Neruda, Pablo. "Towards the Splendid City." Acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature. 13 Dec. 1971, Stockholm, Sweden.

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Neruda, Pablo. "Towards the Splendid City." Nobel Lectures in Literature, 1968-1980. World Scientific Publishing Co., 2007.

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Virgil. Eclogae [Eclogues]. c. 30 BC, no. 1.

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Virgil. "The Eclogues." The Eclogues and The Georgics, translated by C. Day Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2009, no. 1.

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Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892, preface.

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Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D'Urbervilles, edited by Scott Elledge. W. W. Norton & Company, 1990, preface.

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Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.