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Anthony, Susan B. The Revolution. 8 Oct. 1969.

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Dickens, Charles. "Great Expectations." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, 18 May 1861, ch. 40.

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Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 40.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

George Eliot

Silas Marner

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Eliot, George. Silas Marner. Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861, ch. 18.

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Eliot, George. Silas Marner. Signet, 2007, ch. 18.

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Mill, John Stuart. "Utilitarianism." Fraser's Magazine, 1861, ch. 2.

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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. 2.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at Cooper Institute, New York City." 27 Feb. 1860, New York City, NY, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at Cooper Institute, New York City, February 27, 1860." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech in Cleveland, Ohio." 15 Feb. 1861, Cleveland, OH, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech at Cleveland, Ohio, February 15, 1861." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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Nightingale, Florence. Letter to Miss H. Bonham Carter. 1861.

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Dickens, Charles. "Our Mutual Friend." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, Mar. 1865, pt. 11, bk. 3, ch. 2.

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Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend, edited by Adrian Poole. Penguin, 1998, bk. 3, ch. 2.

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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.

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.

Robert E. Lee

On seeing a Union charge repulsed by the Confederate army.

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Lee, Robert E. Comment to James Longstreet, on seeing a Union charge repelled in the Battle of Fredericksburg. Battle of Fredericksburg. 13 Dec. 1862, Fredericksburg, VA, USA.

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 6. Originally from Notebook, 2 July 1867.

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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.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Beauty." The Conduct of Life. Boston: Ticknor & Fields/London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1860.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Beauty." The Conduct of Life, edited by Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, and Douglas Emory Wilson. Vol. 6, Belknap Press, 2004.

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Lincoln, Abraham. Response to a serenade. 10 Nov. 1864, Washington, DC, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Response to a serenade, November 10, 1864." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings: 1859-1865. Library of America, 1989.

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Douglass, Frederick. "The Present and Future of the Colored Race in America." 15 May 1863, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York City, NY, USA.

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Darwin, Charles. Letter to Asa Gray. 22 May 1860.

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Darwin, Charles. Letter to Asa Gray, 22 May [1860]." The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, edited by Frederick Burkhardt and James A. Secord. Vol. 8: 1860. Cambridge University Press, 2022, no. 2814.

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

No Time like the Old Time

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. "No Time like the Old Time." The Atlantic Monthly. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, Oct. 1865, st. 1.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech to the 148th Ohio Regiment." 31 Aug. 1864, Washington, DC, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech to 148th Ohio Regiment, Washington, D.C, August 31, 1864." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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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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Disraeli, Benjamin. Speech on Reform Bill of 1867. Conservative Banquet. 29 Oct. 1867, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.