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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft [Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future]. Leipzig: C. G. Naumann, 1886, ch. 4, no. 146.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 4, no. 146.

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All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

William E. Gladstone

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Gladstone, William E. Speech in Liverpool. 28 June 1886, Hengler's Circus, Liverpool, England, UK.

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In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft [Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future]. Leipzig: C. G. Naumann, 1886, ch. 4, no. 134.

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Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft [Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future]. Leipzig: C. G. Naumann, 1886, ch. 7, no. 217.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 7, no. 217.

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It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft [Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future]. Leipzig: C. G. Naumann, 1886, ch. 4, no. 72.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 4, no. 72.

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Much Madness is divinest Sense —
To a discerning Eye —
Much Sense—the starkest Madness —
'Tis the Majority
In this, as All, prevail —
Assent—and you are sane —
Demur—you're straightway dangerous —
And handled with a Chain —

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Dickinson, Emily. "Much Madness Is Divinest Sense." Poems by Emily Dickinson. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890, I. 1.

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Dickinson, Emily. "Much Madness Is Divinest Sense." Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, edited by Cristanne Miller. Belknap Press, 2016, I. 1.

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If I can stop one Heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one Life the Aching
Or cool one Pain
Or help one fainting Robin
Unto his Nest again
I shall not live in Vain.

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Dickinson, Emily. "If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking." Poems by Emily Dickinson. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890, I. 1.

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Dickinson, Emily. "If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking." Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, edited by Cristanne Miller. Belknap Press, 2016, I. 1.

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Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft [Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future]. Leipzig: C. G. Naumann, 1886, ch. 7, no. 227.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 7, no. 227.

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God made integers, all else is the work of man.

Leopold Kronecker

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Kronecker, Leopold. Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung im Jahre. 1886, Berlin, Germany. Lecture.

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The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

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Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft [Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future]. Leipzig: C. G. Naumann, 1886, ch. 4, no. 157.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 4, no. 157.

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All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case." Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1886.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 10.

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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

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Douglass, Frederick. "Southern Barbarism." Twenty-Fourth Anniversary of Emancipation. 16 April 1886, Washington, DC, USA.

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There are but three generations in America from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves.

Andrew Carnegie

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Carnegie, Andrew. Triumphant Democracy. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886, ch. 16.

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We never know how high we are
Till we are asked to rise
And then if we are true to plan
Our statures touch the skies.

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Dickinson, Emily. We Never Know How High We Are. Poems by Emily Dickinson: Third Series. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1896, I. 1.

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Dickinson, Emily. "We Never Know How High We Are." Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, edited by Cristanne Miller. Belknap Press, 2016, I. 1.

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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

W.B. Yeats

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Yeats, William Butler. Letter to Frederick J. Gregg. 1886.

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Yeats, William Butler. "To F. J. Gregg [late summer 1886]." The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats. Volume I: 1865-1895, edited by John Kelly. Oxford University Press, 1986.

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I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything.

T.H. Huxley

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. Letter to Herbert Spencer. 22 Mar. 1886.

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That Love is all there is,
Is all we know of Love;
It is enough, the freight should be
Proportioned to the groove.

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Dickinson, Emily. "That Love Is All There Is." A Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime, edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Little, Brown and Company, 1914, I. 1.

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Dickinson, Emily. "That Love Is All There Is." Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, edited by Cristanne Miller. Belknap Press, 2016, I. 1.

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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Jerome K. Jerome

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Jerome, Jerome K. "On Being Idle." Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow. Field & Tuer, 1886.

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There's a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons--
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes.