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Place·Missouri✕clear

Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her.

The Awakening · 1899

★ 1.0

Obituary · Newspaper

Never believe governments, not any of them, not a word they say; keep an untrusting eye on all they do.

Martha Gellhorn

1998

★ 1.0

The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn.

1920

★ 1.1

Interview · Magazine

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Downbeat Magazine · 1949

★ 1.1

Speech · Political speech

Almost a year ago, in company with 16 free nations of Europe, we launched the greatest cooperative economic program in history. The purpose of that unprecedented effort is to invigorate and strengthen democracy in Europe, so that the free people of that continent can resume their rightful place in the forefront of civilization and can contribute once more to the security and welfare of the world.

1949

★ 1.1

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work.

1908

★ 1.2

Essay · Philosophical literature

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

1910

★ 1.2

The only way I can get you to do anything is by giving you what you want.

How to Win Friends and Influence People · 1936

★ 1.2

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Pudd'nhead Wilson · 1894

★ 1.3

October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.

Pudd'nhead Wilson · 1894

★ 1.3

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is Left out of it.

1897

★ 1.3

We believe that out of the public school grows the greatness of a nation.

1900

★ 1.3

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

The Mysterious Stranger · 1910

★ 1.3

No man has a wholly undiseased mind; that in one way or another all men are mad.

1910

★ 1.3

The chances are that a man cannot get into congress now without resorting to arts and means that should render him unfit to go there.

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today · 1873

★ 1.3

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

1876

★ 1.3

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

Pudd'nhead Wilson · 1894

★ 1.3

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897

★ 1.3

Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897

★ 1.3

Virtue never has been as respectable as money.

The Innocents Abroad · 1869

★ 1.4

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