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It is the masculine values that prevail... This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing room.

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own

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Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Hogarth Press/Harcourt Brace & Co., 1929, ch. 4.

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Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Mariner Books, 2005, ch. 4.

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Who has not sat nervously before the stage curtain of his heart?

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. "Die vierte Elegie [Fourth Elegy]." Duineser Elegien [Duino Elegies]. Insel-Verlag, 1923.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Duino Elegies, translated by David Young. W. W. Norton & Company, 2006.

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I have been one acquainted with the night.

Robert Frost

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Frost, Robert. "Acquainted with the Night." The Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 1928, st. 1, I. 1.

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Everything that man esteems
Endures a moment or a day.
Love's pleasure drives his love away,
The painter's brush consumes his dreams.

W.B. Yeats

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Yeats, William Butler. "Two Songs From a Play." The Tower. Macmillan & Company, 1928.

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Yeats, William Butler. "Two Songs From a Play." The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Wordsworth Editions, 2000.

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G.K. Chesterton

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Chesterton, G.K. "Our Note Book." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 34, Ignatius Press, 1991. Originally published by Illustrated London Times, 5 May 1928.

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They died to save their country and they only saved the world.

G.K. Chesterton

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Chesterton, G.K. "The English Graves." The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Verses. Cecil Palmer, 1922, I. 18.

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Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

D.H. Lawrence

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Lawrence, D.H. Women in Love. Thomas Seltzer, 1920, ch. 11.

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America seeks no earthly empire built on blood and force. No ambition, no temptation, lures her to thought of foreign dominions.

Calvin Coolidge

Second Inaugural Address of Calvin Coolidge

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Coolidge, Calvin. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1925, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H.P. Lovecraft

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Lovecraft, Howard Phillips. "The Call of Cthulhu." Weird Tales, Feb. 1928.

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Lovecraft, Howard Phillips. "The Call of Cthulhu." The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories, edited by S. T. Joshi. Penguin Classics, 2016.

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They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind.

G.K. Chesterton

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Chesterton, G.K. "The Poet and the Lunatics." Nash's Magazine, 1921, ch. 3.

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Chesterton, G.K. The Poet and the Lunatics. Dover, 2010, ch. 3.

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I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

Langston Hughes

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

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Hughes, Langston. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." The Crisis, June 1921, I. 5.

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Hughes, Langston. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015, I. 5.

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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

Bertrand Russell

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Russell, Bertrand. "On the Value of Skepticism." Sceptical Essays. George Allen and Unwin Ltd./W. W. Norton & Company, 1928.

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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

Saki

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Saki. "Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business." The Square Egg. John Lane, 1924.

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Saki. "Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business." The Complete Saki. Penguin Books, 1998.

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The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

Thornton Wilder

The Bridge on San Luis Rey

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Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, 1927.

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Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Vintage, 2023.

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I've never done a single thing I've wanted to in my whole life! I don't know 's I've accomplished anything except just get along.

Sinclair Lewis

Babbitt

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Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1922, ch. 34.

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Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt, edited by Gordon Hutner. Oxford University Press, 2010, ch. 34.

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