1870

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Go West, young man.

Horace Greeley

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Greeley, Horace. Quoted in New-York Daily Tribune. 13 July 1865.

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Warner, Charles Dudley. My Summer in a Garden. Boston: James R Osgood, 1870, fifteenth week.

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The United States Constitution. Amend. 15, sec. 1.

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"The Constitution of the United States." The Constitution of the United States and The Declaration of Independence. Racehorse, 2016, amend. 15, sec. 1.

And though hard be the task,
"Keep a stiff upper lip."

Phoebe Cary

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Cary, Phoebe. Keep a Stiff Upper Lip. c. 1870.

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Red Cloud. Speech at Council of Peace. 15 June 1870, New York City, NY, USA.

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Sacher-Masoch, Leopold. Venus im Pelz [Venus in Furs]. Stuttgart, 1870.

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Sacher-Masoch, Leopold. Venus in Furs, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Penguin Classics, 2000.

We boil at different degrees.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eloquence

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Eloquence." Society and Solitude. New York City: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Eloquence." The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and Solitude, edited by Ronald A. Bosco and Douglas Emory Wilson. Vol. 7, Belknap Press, 2008.

But the wheel what squeaks the loudest
Is the one what gets the grease.

Josh Billings

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Stewart, Cal. Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories. Punkin Centre Company, 1903, epigraph to Uncle Josh Weathersby.

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Darwin, Charles. Letter to J. D. Hooker. 12 July 1870.

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Darwin, Charles. "To J. D. Hooker, 12 July 1870." The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, edited by Frederick Burkhardt and James A. Secord. Vol. 18: 1870. Cambridge University Press, 2010, no. 7273.

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. "Biogenesis and Abiogenesis." British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting. 1870, London, England, UK.

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

Benjamin Peirce

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Peirce, Benjamin. Linear Associative Algebra. Van Nostrand, 1882, sect. 1.

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Queen Victoria. Letter to Theodore Martin. 29 May 1870.

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Queen Victoria. Quoted in The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928, written by Elizabeth Crawford. Routledge, 2003.

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. "On Medical Education." 1870, University College London, London, England, UK.

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. "On Medical Education." Collected Essays. Vol. 3, Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. "On Medical Education." 1870, University College London, London, England, UK.

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. "On Medical Education." Collected Essays. Vol. 3, Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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Warner, Charles Dudley. "Preliminary." My Summer in a Garden. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1870.

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Vest, George Graham. "The Eulogy of the Dog." The Old Drum Case. Hornsby v. Burden, 23 Sept. 1870.

Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Lothair

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Disraeli, Benjamin. Lothair. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1870, ch. 79.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Jules Verne

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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Verne, Jules. "Vingt mille lieues sous les mers [Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas]." Magasin d'éducation et de récréation, Mar. 1869 - Jun. 1870. Serial.

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Verne, Jules. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, edited and translated by David Coward. Penguin Classics, 2017.