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Valéry, Paul. Quoted in Robert Irwin: A Way to Look at Things by Not Forgetting Their Names, written by Adrian Kohn. c. 1982.

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Renard, Jules. Journal entry. Dec. 1896.

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Renard, Jules. The Journal of Jules Renard, edited and translated by Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget. Tin House Books, 2017.

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Paine, Thomas. The American Crisis: Number 1. Philadelphia: Styner and Cist, 1776.

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Paine, Thomas. "The American Crisis, Number I, December 19, 1776." Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution. Library of America, 2015.

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Disraeli, Benjamin. Speech in London. 9 Nov. 1877, Mansion House, London, England, UK.

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Bacon, Francis "Of Gardens." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

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Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Gardens." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Conciliation with America." House of Commons. 22 Mar. 1775, Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London, England, UK.

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

Wilfred Owen

Dulce et Decorum Est

A Latin phrase, originally from Horace's Odes, meaning "it is sweet and fitting to die for the homeland."

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Owen, Wilfred. "Dulce et Decorum Est." Poems by Wilfred Owen. Chatto & Windus, 1920.

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Owen, Wilfred. "Dulce et Decorum Est." The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen. Random House UK, 2018.

Happy is he who, like Ulysses, has made a glorious voyage.

Joachim Du Bellay

Les Regrets

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Du Bellay, Joachim. "Heureux qui, comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage." Les Regrets. Paris: Fédéric Morel, 1558.

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Du Bellay, Joachim. "Happy is he who, like Ulysses, has made a fine journey." The Regrets, translated by David R. Slavitt. Northwestern University Press, 2003.

We had found the secret of life!

Francis Crick

On the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953.

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Crick, Frances. Quoted in The Double Helix, by James D. Watson. Atheneum Press/Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968, ch. 26.

Truth is the first casualty in war.

Ethel Snowden

Women and War

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Snowden, Ethel. "Women and War." Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the National Education Association. 1915.

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Nin, Anaïs and Henry Miller. "August 6, 1932." A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953, edited by Gunther Stuhlmann. Harcourt Brace & Company, 1987.

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Bernard of Chartres. Quoted in The Metalogicon of John of Salisbury, written by John of Salisbury. c. 1159, bk. 3.

To govern is to choose.

Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Lévis

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Levis, Pierre Marc Gaston. "Maximes de Politique." Maximes et reflexions sur differents sujets. Paris, 1808, no. 19.

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Heine, Heinrich. Almansor. 1821.

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Gladstone, William E. Speech in Liverpool. 28 June 1886, Hengler's Circus, Liverpool, England, UK.

Hope raises no dust.

Paul Eluard

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Eluard, Paul. "Ailleurs, Ici Partout." Poesie ininterrompue. Paris: Gallimard, 1946.

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Shaw, George Bernard. "In the Beginning: B.C. 4004." Back to Methuselah. Penguin, 1988, pt. 1, act 1. Originally published by Constable/Brentano's, 1921.

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Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. The Physiology of Taste [Physiologie du Goût]. Paris, 1825, meditation 9.

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Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy, translated by M. F. K. Fisher. Vintage, 2011, meditation 9.

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Schumacher, Ernst Friedrich. Roots of Economic Growth. Gandhian Institute of Studies, 1962.

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Barrie, J. M. Quoted in The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean, by R. M. Ballantyne. James Nisbet and Co., 1913, preface.