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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina

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Tolstoy, Leo. Анна Каренина [Anna Karenina]. The Russian Messenger, 1875-1877. Serial.

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Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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An invasion of armies can be resisted; an invasion of ideas cannot be resisted.

Victor Hugo

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Hugo, Victor. Histoire d'un crime [The History of a Crime]. Paris: Calmann-Levy, c. 1878, conclusion, ch. 10.

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

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Dostoyevsky, Feodor. Преступленіе и наказаніе [Crime and Punishment]. The Russian Messenger, Jan. 1866 - Dec. 1866, monthly serial.

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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment, translated and edited by Michael R. Katz. W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.

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Please, sir, I want some more.

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist

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Dickens, Charles. "Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress." Bentley's Miscellany. London: Richard Bentley, Feb. 1837, issue 1, ch. 2.

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Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. Penguin, 2003, ch. 2.

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I wear the chain I forged in life.

Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol

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Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843, stave 1.

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Dickens, Charles. "A Christmas Carol." A Christmas Carol and Other Writings, edited by Michael Slater. Penguin, 2003, stave 1.

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Imagination labors best in distant fields.

Mark Twain

The Innocents Abroad

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Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1869.

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Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress. Random House Publishing Group, 2003.

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

Beloved

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Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

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Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Братья Карамазовы [The Brothers Karamazov]." The Russian Messenger, Jan. 1879 - Nov. 1880. Serial.

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Dostoevsky, Feodor. The Brothers Karamazov, translated by David McDuff. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 1.

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 1.

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Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

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Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 7.

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Twain, Mark. "Following the Equator." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 7.

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Twain, Mark. Note to Frank Marshall White. 31 May 1897.

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews, edited by Gary Scharnhorst. University Alabama Press, 2006, ch. 6.

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The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls

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Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940, ch. 43.

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities

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Dickens, Charles. "A Tale of Two Cities." London: Chapman & Hall. April-Nov. 1859. Weekly serial.

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Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities, edited by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. W. W. Norton & Company, 2019, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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Love and War are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote

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De Cervantes, Miguel. Segunda Parte Del ingenioso caballero don Quixote de la Mancha [The Second Part of Don Quixote de la Mancha]. Spain: Francisco de Robles, 1615.

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