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Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1869, ch. 26.

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Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress. Random House Publishing Group, 2003, ch. 26.

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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1866, epilogue.

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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical, edited by Lynda Mugglestone. Penguin Classics, 1995, epilogue.

The war is over-the rebels are our countrymen again.

Ulysses S. Grant

Preventing his men from cheering after Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox.

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Grant, Ulysses S. Preventing his men from cheering after Lee's surrender. 9 Apr. 1865, Appomattox Court House, Appomattox County, Virginia, USA.

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Grant, Ulysses S. Quoted in "Civil War: A Narrative." Written by Shelby Foote. Vol. 3, Modern Library, 2011.

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Dickens, Charles. "Our Mutual Friend." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, May 1865, pt. 13, bk. 3, ch. 10.

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Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend, edited by Adrian Poole. Penguin, 1998, bk. 3, ch. 10.

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Dickens, Charles. "Great Expectations." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, 30 Mar. 1861, issue 17, ch. 29.

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Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 29.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1861, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "First Inaugral Address, March 4, 1861." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 2018.

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Grant, Ulysses S. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1869, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at a Sanitary Fair in Philadelphia." Sanitary Fair. 16 Jun. 1864, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at Great Central Sanitary Fair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 16, 1864." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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Mill, John Stuart. Considerations on Representative Government. London: Parker, Son, and Bourn, 1861, ch. 7.

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Mill, John Stuart. "Considerations on Representative Government." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 7.

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Lincoln, Abraham. Fragment written by Abraham Lincoln but found after his death by John Hay. c. 2 Sept. 1862?

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Meditation on the Divine Wall, c. early September 1862." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land.

Christina Georgina Rossetti

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Rossetti, Christina. "Remember." Goblin Market and Other Poems. London: Macmillan, 1862, I. 1.

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Rossetti, Christina. "Remember." The Complete Poems. Penguin Classics, 2001, I. 1.

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Lincoln, Abraham. Second Annual Message to Congress. 1 Dec. 1862, US Congress, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869, ch. 2.

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Mill, John Stuart. "The Subjection of Women." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 2.

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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Записки из Мёртвого дома [The House of the Dead]." Vremya, 1860-1862.

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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The House of the Dead, translated by David McDuff. Penguin Classics, 1986.

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Baudelaire, Charles. "Éloge du maquillage [In Praise of Makeup]." The Painter of Modern Life. Paris: Le Figaro, c. 1863.

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Baudelaire, Charles. "The Painter of Modern Life." Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Literature, translated by P. E. Charvet. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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Mill, John Stuart. "Utilitarianism." Fraser's Magazine, 1861, ch. 3.

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Mill, John Stuart. "Utilitarianism." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 3.

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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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Mill, John Stuart. Inaugural Address at St. Andrews. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1867. Orinally given on 1 Feb. 1867, St. Andrew's University, St. Andrew, Fife, Scotland, UK.

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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Letter to Susan B. Anthony. 14 June 1860.