1914

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My center is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking.

Ferdinand Foch

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Foch, Ferdinand. Message sent during the first Battle of the Marne. 8 Sept. 1914.

My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

James Joyce

Araby

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Joyce, James. “Araby.” Dubliners. Grant Richards Ltd., 1914.

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Joyce, James. “Araby.” Dubliners, edited by Terence Brown. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Frost, Robert. "The Death of the Hired Man." North of Boston. David Nutt, 1914.

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Frost, Robert. "The Death of the Hired Man." Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays, edited by Richard Poirier and Mark Richardson. Library of America, 1995.

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

Sir Edward Grey

Remark just before the beginning of World War I.

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Grey, Edward. Twenty-Five Years, 1892-1916. Vo1. 2, Frederick A. Stokes, 1925, ch. 18.

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Brooke, Rupert. "The Soldier." 1914 and Other Poems. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1915, I. 1.

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Brooke, Rupert. "The Soldier." The Poems of Rupert Brooke. Dover Publications, 2020, I. 1.

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Pessoa, Fernando (published as Ricardo Reis). "So esta liberdade nos concedem [The only freedom the gods grant us]." Odes. Edições Ática, 1952.

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Joyce, James. "A Painful Case." Dubliners. Grant Richards, 1914.

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Joyce, James. "A Painful Case." Dubliners: Centennial Edition, edited by Terence Brown. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. "Protest." Poems of Problems. W. B. Conkey Company, 1914.

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Chesterton, G.K. "The Flying Inn." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton, edited by Iain T. Benson. Vol. 7, Ignatius Press, 2005, ch. 15. Originally published by John Lane/Methuen, 1914.

I gave my life for freedom-This I know:
For those who bade me fight had told me so.

William Norman Ewer

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Ewer, William Norman. "Five Souls." British Nation, 3 Oct. 1914, I. 5.

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Ellis, Havelock. Impressions and Comments. Constable & Company, 1914.

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Francis Darwin

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Darwin, Francis. "Francis Galton." Eugenics Review, April 1914.

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Pankhurst, Emmeline. My Own Story. Hearsts's International Library, 1914.

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Pankhurst, Emmeline. My Own Story. Vintage Classics, 2018.

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Wilson, Woodrow. An address on neutrality. US Senate meeting. 19 Aug. 1914, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Wilson, Woodrow. "An Appeal for Neutrality in World War I." Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-President, edited by Mario R. DiNunzio. NYU Press, 2006.

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Pankhurst, Emmeline. My Own Story. Hearsts's International Library, 1914.

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Pankhurst, Emmeline. My Own Story. Vintage Classics, 2018.

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Mondrian, Piet. Sketchbook II. c. 1914.