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I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

John Paul Jones

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Jones, John Paul. Letter to Le Ray de Chaumont. 16 Nov. 1778.

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Coke, Edward. Court of King's Bench. Peter Semayne v Richard Gresham. 5 Co Rep 91 a. Michaelmas Term, 1604.

Over all, rocks, wood, and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its inmost depths.

Thomas Cole

Essay on American Scenery

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Cole, Thomas. "Essay on American Scenery." American Monthly Magazine, 1 Jan. 1836.

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Fitzgerald, Edward. Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances. London: William Pickering, 1852.

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Hood, Thomas. "Silence." The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur and Other Poems. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green/Philadelphia: E. Littell, 1827.

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Hood, Thomas. "Silence." Selected Poems of Thomas Hood. Harvard University Press, 1970.

The flow'ry way that leads to the broad gate and the great fire.

William Shakespeare

All's Well that Ends Well

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Shakespeare, William. "All's Well that Ends Well." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 4, sc. 5.

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Shakespeare, William. "All's Well That Ends Well." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 5.

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Pepys, Samuel. Diary entry. 17 June 1668.

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Brooke, Rupert. "The Hill." Collected Poems. John Lane, 1916, I. 1.

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Brooke, Rupert. "The Hill." The Poems of Rupert Brooke. Dover Publications, 2020, I. 1.

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

Sir Edward Grey

Remark just before the beginning of World War I.

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Grey, Edward. Twenty-Five Years, 1892-1916. Vo1. 2, Frederick A. Stokes, 1925, ch. 18.

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Hawking, Stephen. "The Future of the Universe." Jan. 1991, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, UK. Lecture.

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Lawrence, T. E. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. 1926, introductory chapter.

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Ellis, Havelock. Little Essays of Love and Virtue. George H. Doran Company/A & C Black, 1922, ch. 7.

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Scruton, Roger. How to Be a Conservative. Bloomsbury Continuum, 2014, preface.

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Maugham, William Somerset. "The Treasure." The Mixture as Before. William Heinemann/Doubleday Doran, 1940.

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Selden, John. "Law." The Table-Talk Of John Selden. London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1689.

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Sheed, Wilfrid. The Good Word & Other Words. E. P. Dutton, 1978, pt. 1, ch. 15.

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Hirsi Ali, Ayaan. "How (and Why) I Became an Infidel." The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever, edited by Christopher Hitchens. Da Capo Press, 2007, ch. 47.

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Morris, William. "How I Became a Socialist." Justice, 16 June 1894.

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Morris, William. How I Became a Socialist, edited by Owen Hatherley. Verso, 2020.

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Gompers, Samuel. "Trade Unions - Their Philosophy." Jan. 1898, USA. Speech.

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Gompers, Samuel. Quoted in The State and the Unions, written by Christopher Tomlins. Cambridge University Press, 1985, ch. 3.

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Darwin, Erasmus. Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life. Vol. 1, London: Joseph Johnson, 1794, sec. 39.