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Library of Congress Dickens’s Great Expectations
“The idea of an innocent boy establishing unconsciously an immense influence over the mind of a hunted felon … haunted Dickens’s imagination until he gathered round it a whole new world of characters and incidents.”
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Dickens's American Notes
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W. H. Beard / Samuel Hollyer / Library ... Mr. Hardhack on the Derivation of Man from the Monkey
“If I had been Chief justice of England when that high priest of ‘natural selection’ first tried to oust me out of the fee-simple of my species, I would have given him an illustration of ‘the struggle for existence’ he wouldn't have relished.”
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Library of Congress The Johnson Party
“[President Andrew Johnson] has been the great stirrer-up of disaffection at the South, and the virtual leader of the Southern reactionary party.”
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Reconstruction and Negro Suffrage
“Having converted the loyal blacks from slaves into the condition of citizens of the United States, there can be no reason or justice or policy in allowing them to be made, in localities recently Rebel, the subjects of whites who have but just purged themselves from the guilt of treason.”
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Library of Congress Fantine, by Victor Hugo
"Few who take the book up will leave it until they have read it through."
