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I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.

Rudyard Kipling

The Elephant's Child

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Kipling, Rudyard. "The Elephant's Child." Just So Stories. Macmillan and Co., 1902.

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Kipling, Rudyard. "The Elephant's Child." The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling. Wordsworth Editions, 1999.

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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Sherlock Holmes

A Case of Identity

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Case of Identity." The Strand Magazine. London: Sept. 1891.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Case of Identity." The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2010.

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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Bernice Bobs Her Hair." Saturday Evening Post, May 1920.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Bernice Bobs Her Hair." F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels and Stories 1920-1922, edited by Jackson Bryer. Library of America, 2000.

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In Eden the only wealth is nakedness and unawareness.

Carlos Fuentes

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Fuentes, Carlos. "Las does Americas [The Two Americas]." El Naranjo [The Orange Tree]. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994.

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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Borges, Jorge Luis. "Deutsches Requiem." Sur, Feb. 1946.

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Borges, Jorge Luis. "Deutsches Requiem." The Aleph and Other Stories, translated by Andrew Hurley. Penguin Classics, 2004.

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We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Henry James

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James, Henry. "The Middle Years." Scribner's Magazine. New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893.

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James, Henry. "The Middle Years." Henry James: Complete Stories 1892-1898. Vol. 4. Library of America, 1996.

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The almighty dollar, that great object of universal veneration throughout our land.

Washington Irving

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Irving, Washington. "The Creole Village." Knickerbocker Magazine, 12 Nov. 1836.

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I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more—the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort—to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires—and expires, too soon, too soon—before life itself.

Joseph Conrad

Youth

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Conrad, Joseph. "Youth: A Narrative." Blackwood's Magazine. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, Sept. 1898.

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Conrad, Joseph. "Youth." Heart of Darkness and Other Tales, edited by Cedric Watts. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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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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The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Nadine Gordimer

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Gordimer, Nadine. "Leaving School—II." London Magazine, May 1963.

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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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A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving

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Irving, Washington. "Rip Van Winkle." The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. New York: C. S. Van Winkle, 23 June 1819–July 1820.

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Irving, Washington. "Rip Van Winkle." The Sketch-Book, edited by Susan Manning. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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God made man, without man's consent, and made his nature, too; made it vicious instead of angelic, and then said, Be angelic, or I will punish you and destroy you. But no matter, God is responsible for everything man does, all the same; He can't get around that fact. There is only one Criminal, and it is not man.

Mark Twain

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Twain, Mark. "Little Bessie." Fables of Man. University of California Press, 1972, ch. 2.

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Twain, Mark. "Little Bessie." The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's "Great Dark" Writings. University of California Press, 2005, ch. 2.

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A good idea, he thought, to sleep off to death. It was like taking an anaesthetic. Freezing was not so bad as people thought. There were lots worse ways to die... Then the man drowsed off into what seemed to him the most comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known.

Jack London

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London, Jack. "To Build a Fire." The Youth's Companion, 29 May 1902.

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London, Jack. "To Build a Fire." The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories. Signet, 2009.

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There's nothing so dangerous as sitting still. You've only got one life, one youth, and you can let it slip through your fingers if you want to; nothing easier. Most people do that.

Willa Cather

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Cather, Willa. "The Bohemian Girl." McClure's Magazine, Aug. 1912.

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Cather, Willa. "The Bohemian Girl." The Bohemian Girl: Stories. Harper Perennial, 2009.

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They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.

William Faulkner

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Faulkner, William. "The Bear." Go Down, Moses. Random House, 1942, pt. 4.

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She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

J.D. Salinger

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Salinger, J. D. "A Girl I Knew." Good Housekeeping, Feb. 1948.

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I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming.

Arthur C. Clarke

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Clarke, Arthur C. "Sentinel of Eternity." Ten Story Fantasy. Avon Periodicals, 1951.

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Generosity is the essence of friendship.

Oscar Wilde

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Devoted Friend." The Happy Prince and Other Tales. London: Duckworth and Co., 1888.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Devoted Friend." Oscar Wilde: Complete Short Fiction, edited by Ian Small. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Oscar Wilde

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Sphinx Without a Secret." Lord Arthur Savile's Crime: The Portrait of Mr. W.H. and Other Stories. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1891.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Sphinx Without a Secret." The Model Millionaire: Stories. Harper Perennial, 2009.

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