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I can't get no satisfaction,
I can't get no girl reaction.

The Rolling Stones

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

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Jagger, Mick and Keith Richards. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction. Performed by the Rolling Stones. London Recordings, 1965.

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Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man?

William Wordsworth

Lines Written in Early Spring

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Wordsworth, William. "Lines written in early spring." Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London: J. and A. Arch, 1798, st. 6.

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Wordsworth, William. "Lines written in Early Spring." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008, st. 6.

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O tempora! O mores!

Cicero

Against Catiline

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. "Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habit." 63 BC, Rome Senate, Rome, Italy.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Cicero: In Catilinam I-IV, edited by J.F. Stout. Bristol Classical Press, 2009, Oratio 1.

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Poor man. Poor mankind.

William Faulkner

Light in August

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Faulkner, William. Light in August. Smith & Haas, 1932, ch. 4.

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Faulkner, William. Light in August, edited by Melanie Taylor. W. W. Norton & Company, 2022, ch. 4.

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America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.

Allen Ginsberg

America (poem)

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Ginsberg, Allen. "America." Howl and Other Poems. City Lights, 1956.

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I've never done a single thing I've wanted to in my whole life! I don't know 's I've accomplished anything except just get along.

Sinclair Lewis

Babbitt

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Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1922, ch. 34.

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Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt, edited by Gordon Hutner. Oxford University Press, 2010, ch. 34.

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In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

Anatole France

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France, Anatole. L'Ile des Pingouins [Penguin Island]. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1908, bk. 6, ch. 2.

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O poor mortals, how ye make this Earth bitter for each other.

Thomas Carlyle

The French Revolution: A History

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Carlyle, Thomas. The French Revolution: A History. London: James Fraser, 1837, pt. 1, bk. 5, ch. 5.

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Oh this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is!

Catullus

Carmina

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Catullus, Gaius Valerius. Carmina. c. 1481, no. 43, l. 8.

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Cattulus, Gaius Valerius. The Poems of Catullus, translated by Guy Lee. Oxford University Press, 2009, no. 43, l. 8.

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