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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Familiar Studies of Men and Books. London: Chatto & Windus, 1882.

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Beecher, Henry Ward. Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887.

The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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Amiel, Henri-Frédéric. Journal entry. 7 Jan. 1866.

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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Speech in Washington, DC. Seventeeth Annual Convention of the National Woman Suffrage Assoociation. Jan. 1885, Washington, DC, USA.

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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: When Clowns Make Laws for Queens, 1880-1887. Vol. 4, Rutgers University Press, 1997.

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Meredith, George. Diana of the Crossways. London: Chapman and Hall, 1885. Originally published in Fortnightly, 1884.

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. "The Coming of Age of The Origin of Species." 19 Mar. 1880, Royal Institution, London, England, UK. Lecture.

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Henley, William Ernest. Book of Verses. London: David Nutt, 1888.

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Henley, William Ernest. "Invictus." A Selection of Poems. White Press, 2015, st. 4.

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France, Anatole. Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard [The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard]. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1881, pt. 2, ch. 4.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Study in Scarlet." Beeton's Christmas Annual. London: Ward Lock & Co., 1887.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2012.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Study in Scarlet." Beeton's Christmas Annual. London: Ward Lock & Co., 1887.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2012, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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Sitting Bull. Speech to Major Brotherton. 19 or 20 July 1881, Fort Buford, ND, USA.

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Sitting Bull. "What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken?" Great Speeches by Native Americans, edited by Bob Blaisdell. Dover Publications, 2000.

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Craik, Dinah Mulock. "Magnus and Morna." Thirty Years: Being Poems, New and Old. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1881, sc. 2.

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Jerome, Jerome Klapka. Three Men in a Boat. London: J. W. Arrowsmith, 1889, ch. 15.

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Jerome, Jerome Klapa. "Three Men in a Boat." Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel, edited by Jeremy Lewis. Penguin Classics, 2000, ch. 15.

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Lodge, Henry Cabot. "The Day We Celebrate." New England Society of Brooklyn meeting. 21 Dec. 1888, Brooklyn, New York City, NY, USA.

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Morris, William. "The Beauty of Life." Hopes and Fears for Art: Five Lectures Delivered in Birmingham, London, and Nottingham, 1878 - 1881. London: Ellis & White/Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1882. Originally a lecture before the Birmingham Society of Arts and School of Design. 19 Feb. 1880, Birmingham, England, UK.

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Jerome, Jerome K. "On Being Idle." Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow. Field & Tuer, 1886.

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Gilbert, William Schwenck. Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri. Composed by Arthur Sullivan. 1882, Savoy Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "Lecture 1: Early Forms of Liability." Lowell Lectures. 23 Nov. 1880, Lowell Institute, Lowell, MA, USA.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. The Common Law. Belknap Press, 2009, lecture 1.

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Ingersoll, Robert Green. "The Christian Religion." The North American Review, Aug. 1881.

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Riley, James Whitcomb [published as Benjamin F. Johnson of Boone County]. "The Old Swimmin' Hole." The Old Swimmin' Hole and 'Leven More Poems. Indianapolis: George C. Hitt & Co., 1883, st. 5.

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Riley, James Whitcomb. "The Old Swimmin' Hole." Little Orphant Annie and Other Poems. Dover Publications, 2011, st. 5.