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Mencken, Henry Louis. "The Divine Afflatus." H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: The First, Second, and Third Series, edited by Marion Rodgers. Library of America, 2010. Originally published by New York Evening Mail, 16 Nov. 1917.

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Federal Court. US v. Eugene V. Debs. RG 21, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, Criminal Case Files, 1912–1977, Criminal Case #4057. 9. NYT, 10 Sept. 1918.

From troubles of the world
I turn to ducks,
Beautiful comical things.

F.W. Harvey

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Harvey, Frederick William. "Ducks." Ducks, and other Verses. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1919, I. 1.

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Mencken, Henry Louis. H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: The First, Second, and Third Series, edited by Marion Rodgers. Library of America, 2010, ch. 16, sec. 2. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1919.

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Wodehouse, P. G. "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest." Carry On, Jeeves. Herbert Jenkins, 1925. Originally published in Saturday Evening Post, 9 Dec. 1916.

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McCrae, John. "In Flanders Fields." Punch, 8 Dec. 1915.

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Baha, Abdul. Speech at woman's suffrage meeting. 20 May 1912, Metropolitan Temple, New York City, NY, USA.

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Baha, Abdul. "May 20, 1912, at Metropolitan Temple, Seventh Avenue and Fourteenth St., New York. Woman's Suffrage Meeting." The Promulgation of Universal Peace. Baha'i Publishing, 2012.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. United States, Supreme Court. Schenck v. United States. United States Reports, vol. 249, 3 Mar. 1919, pp. 47-53. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/249/47/.

War is hell, and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace-time.

Ian Hay

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Hay, Ian. "The First Hundred Thousand." Blackwood's Magazine, 1915.

The Past is like a funeral gone by
The Future comes like an unwelcomed guest.

Edmund Gosse

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Gosse, Edmund. "May-Day." On Viol and Flute. London: Henry S. King, 1873.

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Hesse, Herman. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend [Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth]. Fischer Verlag, 1919.

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Hesse, Herman. Demian, translated by Damion Searls. Penguin Classics, 2013.

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Balfour, Arthur James. Memorandum to Lord Curzon. 11 Aug. 1919.

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Balfour, Arthur James. Quoted in Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives, edited by Anne McClintock and Aamir Mufti and Ella Shohat. University of Minnesota Press, 1997.

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Owen, Wilfred. "Anthem for Doomed Youth." Poems. Chatto & Windus, 1920.

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Owen, Wilfred. "Anthem for Doomed Youth." The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen. Random House UK, 2018.

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Mencken, HL. "Women as Outlaws." A Mencken Chrestomathy. Alfred A. Knopf, 1949, ch. 3. Originally published In Defense of Women. Philip Goodman, 1918, ch. 2, sec. 13.

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Maugham, William Somerset. The Moon and Sixpence. William Heinemann, 1919, ch. 17.

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Maugham, William Somerset. The Moon and Sixpence. Vintage Classics, 2009, ch. 17.

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Balfour, Arthur James. Letter to Lord Rothschild. 2 Nov. 1917.

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Hand, Learned. US District Court for the Southern District of New York. Masses Pub. Co. v. Patten, 244 F. 535 (1917).

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Francis Darwin

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Darwin, Francis. "Francis Galton." Eugenics Review, April 1914.

I will cling to the old rugged cross,
And exchange it some day for a crown.

George Bennard

The Old Rugged Cross

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Bennard, George. "The Old Rugged Cross." Heart and Life Songs for the Church, Sunday School, Home, and Campmeeting. 1915.

Time, you old gipsy man,
Will you not stay,
Put up your caravan
Just for one day?

Ralph Hodgson

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Hodgson, Ralph. "Time, You Old Gipsy Man." Poems. The Macmillan Company, 1917, I. 1.