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In every political society, parties are unavoidable. A difference of interests, real or supposed is the most natural and fruitful source of them...the great art of politicians lies in making them checks and balances to each other.

James Madison

Parties

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Political parties Checks and balances Political theory

Author

James Madison

Source

Parties The National Gazette

Medium

Essay Newspaper

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1792 1790s 18th century

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Madison, James "Parties." The National Gazette. 23 Jan. 1792.

Current Citation

Madison, James. "Political Essays: Charters and Parties; January 19 and 23, 1792." Selected Writings of James Madison, edited by Ralph Ketcham. Hackett Publishing Company, 2006.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Edward Everett

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Value of education Education

Author

Edward Everett

Source

Salem Gazette

Medium

Essay Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

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Everett, Edward. "A Good Idea." Salem Gazette, 14 Mar. 1937.

A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The Revolt of the Masses

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Revolution Changing of generations Political theory

Author

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Source

The Revolt of the Masses

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature Philosophical literature

Language

Spanish

Time

1930 1930s 20th century

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Ortega y Gasset, Jose. La Rebelion de las Masas [The Revolt of the Masses.] El Sol, 1929, serial.

Current Citation

Ortega y Gasset, Jose. The Revolt of the Masses. W. W. Norton & Company, 1994, ch. 10.

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Power of ideas Ideas Personal growth

Author

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1831 1830s 19th century

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell. "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table." The New England Magazine. Boston: Joseph T. Buckingham, Nov. 1831 and Feb. 1832.

Current Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Dover Publications, 2015.

He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry, "A young man not yet, an elder man not at all."

Francis Bacon

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Marriage

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Francis Bacon

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Of Marriage and Single Life Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1625 1620s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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

Current Citation

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

Wine may well be considered the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

Louis Pasteur

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Wine Alcohol

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Louis Pasteur

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Essay

Language

French

Time

1873 1870s 19th century

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Pasteur, Louis. Etudes Des Vin [On the studies of wine]. Paris: Librairie Savy, 1873.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

George Savile, Lord Halifax

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Anger Justifications and rationales

Author

George Savile, Lord Halifax

Source

Of Anger

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1750 1750s 18th century

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Savile, George. "Of Anger." A Character of King Charles The Second and Political, Moral and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections. London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750.

Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition-and perchance to some excess-I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays

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Citizens of the world

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Michel de Montaigne

Source

Of Vanity Essays

Medium

Essay

Language

French

Time

1580 1580s 16th century

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De Montaigne, Michel. "De la Vanite [Of Vanity]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

Current Citation

De Montaigne, Michel. "On Vanity." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Intelligence Contradiction Ideas

Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source

The Crack-Up Esquire

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "The Crack-Up." Esquire, Feb. 1936.

Current Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "The Crack-Up." My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940, edited by James L.W. West, III. Cambridge UP, 2005.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves—there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home.

Joan Didion

Vogue

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Self-respect Being oneself Being true to oneself Authenticity

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Joan Didion

Source

Self-respect: Its Source, Its Power Vogue

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

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Didion, Joan. "Self-respect: Its Source, Its Power." Vogue, 1 Aug. 1961.

Current Citation

Didion, Joan. "On Self-Respect." Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.

Character—the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life—is the source from which self-respect springs.

Joan Didion

Self-respect: Its Source, Its Power

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Character Self-respect Taking responsibility

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Joan Didion

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Self-respect: Its Source, Its Power Vogue

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

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Didion, Joan. "Self-respect: Its Source, Its Power." Vogue, 1 Aug. 1961.

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Didion, Joan. "On Self-Respect." Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.

Wonder... And not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.

Adam Smith

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Wonder Curiosity Philosophy

Author

Adam Smith

Source

The History of Astronomy Essays on Philosophical Subjects

Medium

Essay

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1790 1790s 18th century

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Smith, Adam. "The History of Astronomy." Essays on Philosophical Subjects. London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies/Edinburgh: W. Creech, 1795, sect. 3, para. 3.

Current Citation

Smith, Adam. "The History of Astronomy." Essays on Philosophical Subjects, edited by W. P. D. Wightman. Liberty Fund, 1982, sect. 3, para. 3.

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.

Tom Wolfe

Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

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Radicalism Elites

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Tom Wolfe

Source

Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Wolfe, Tom. "Radical Chic." Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970. Originally an essay called "These Radical Chic Evenings." New York Magazine, June 1970.

Puritanism—The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

H.L. Mencken

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Puritanism

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H.L. Mencken

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Arcana Coelestia A Mencken Chrestomathy

Medium

Essay

Statement Type

Definition

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

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Mencken, Henry Louis. "Arcana Coelestia." A Mencken Chrestomathy. Alfred A. Knopf, 1949, ch. 30.

He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

Alexander Pope

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Topic

Consequences of lying Lying Lies Liars

Author

Alexander Pope

Source

Thoughts on Various Subjects

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1727 1720s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Citation

Pope, Alexander. "Thoughts on Various Subjects." Swifts's Miscellanies. London, 1727, no. 31.

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.

Henry Kissinger

Reflections on Containment

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Morality in foreign policy Foreign policy International politics

Author

Henry Kissinger

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Reflections on Containment Foreign Affairs

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1994 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Kissinger, Henry. "Reflections on Containment." Foreign Affairs, June 1994.

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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Delusion

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Bertrand Russell

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Dreams and Facts Sceptical Essays

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Essay

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Russell, Bertrand. "Dreams and Facts." Sceptical Essays. George Allen and Unwin Ltd./W. W. Norton & Company, 1928.

Marriage is like life in this-that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Downsides of marriage Relationship challenges Marriage

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Source

Virginibus Puerisque

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Essay

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Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1876 1870s 19th century

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Virginibus Puerisque." The Cornhill Magazine, vol. 34, 1876, p. 176.

The principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex to the other—is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.

John Stuart Mill

The Subjection of Women

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Patriarchy Oppression of women Gender relations

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John Stuart Mill

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The Subjection of Women

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1869 1860s 19th century

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Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Mill, John Stuart. "The Subjection of Women." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 1.

Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

W.H. Auden

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Topic

The past History The human condition

Author

W.H. Auden

Source

D.H. Lawrence

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Auden, W. H. "D. H. Lawrence." The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays. Random House, 1962.