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23. I do not mean to have it inferred that I ever go to sea as a passenger.
Herman Melville, Ch. 1 "Loomings" (1851)
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Among the ancients there were two worlds in existence
"The Iroquois Creation Story" as recorded in 1827
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Tell me, what else should I have done?
Mary Oliver, The Summer Day (1992)
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Because this alone is what a man who came away naked could carry out with him
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A weasel is wild. Who knows what he thinks?
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20. Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones.
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I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order
Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography, Part III (1784, 1818)
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26. Your conformity explains nothing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson "Self-Reliance" (1841)
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25. Hope is THE thing with feathers
Emily Dickinson, "Hope" is the thing with feathers (c.1861)
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24. We need the storm, the whirlwind, the earthquake.
Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"(1852)
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22. I have outwalked the furthest city light.
Robert Frost, "Acquainted with the Night"(1928) and "The Road Not Taken" (1915)
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21. Cold Water and a run in the fresh air before breakfast.
Lydia Maria Child, The American Frugal Housewife (1833)
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20. Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones.
Shirley Jackson, "The Lottery"(1948)
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