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Patmore, Coventry. The Angel in the House. Self-published, 1854, bk. 1, canto 8, prelude 2.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary: Moeurs de Province [Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners]. Revue de Paris, 1 Oct. 1856 - 15 Dec. 1856. Serial.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary, edited and translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Classics, 2011, pt. 3, ch. 9.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorismen zu Lebensweisheit: Bon Dem, was Einer ist [Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life: What a Man is]." Parerga und Paralipomena. Vol. 1, Berlin: Druck und Verlag von U. W. Haan, 1851.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorisms on the wisdom of life." Parerga and Paralipomena, translated by Sabine Roehr and Christopher Janaway. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2016.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 135.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 135.

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Nerval, Gerard. Aurelia ou le reve et la vie [Aurelia or the Dream and the Life]. Paris: Theophile Gautier and Arsene Houssaye, 1855, pt. 1.

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Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: J.W. Parker and Son, 1859, ch. 1.

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Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 1.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "First Debate with Stephen A. Douglas." 21 Aug. 1858, Ottawa, IL, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "First Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Ottawa, Illinois, August 21, 1858." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

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Dickens, Charles. The Personal History of David Copperfield. London: Bradbury & Evans, Sept. 1850, issue 17, ch. 53.

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Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield, edited by Jeremy Tambling. Penguin Classics, 2004, ch. 53.

There is a wisdom of the Head, and...a wisdom of the Heart.

Charles Dickens

Hard Times: For These Times

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Dickens, Charles. "Hard Times: For These Times." Household Words, 22 July 1854, ch. 29.

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Dickens, Charles. Hard Times, edited by Fred Kaplan. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016, bk. 3, ch. 1.

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Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. London: Bradbury & Evans, June 1852, issue 4, ch. 13.

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Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 13.

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Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: J.W. Parker and Son, 1859, ch. 1.

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Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 1.

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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 at Peoria, Illinois, October 16, 1854." Lincoln Speeches, edited by Allen C. Guelzo and Richard Beeman. Penguin, 2012.

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Lincoln, Abraham. Speech at Columbus, Ohio. 16 Sept. 1859, Columbus, OH, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech at Columbus, Ohio, September 16, 1859." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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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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Thoreau, Henry David. "Where I Lived, And What I Lived For." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Where I Lived, And What I Lived For." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Where I Lived, And What I Lived For." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Where I Lived, And What I Lived For." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher. "Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly." The National Era, 5 June 1851 - 1 Apr. 1852.

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin, edited by Elizabeth Ammons. W. W. Norton & Company, 2017, ch. 33.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "First Debate with Stephen A. Douglas." 21 Aug. 1858, Ottawa, IL, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "First Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Ottawa, Illinois, August 21, 1858." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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Thoreau, Henry David. Journal entry. 11 Mar. 1856.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "March 11 [1856]." I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Yale University Press, 2007.