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Answers questions on Samuel Smiles's Self-Help: perseverance, energy, character and the lives of self-made people, quoting the 1859 text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“to lie fallow, for he gave his evenings diligently to self-culture, studying and digesting Blackstone, Montesquieu, and solid commentaries on English law. His m…”
Answers questions on Elsie de Wolfe's The House in Good Taste: light, colour, suitability and furnishing each room of the house, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“In short, the whole thing should be a matter of taste and suitability. If you have a few fine old things that have come to you from your ancestors—a grandfather…”
Answers questions on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: the Bennets, Mr. Darcy and first impressions, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“## {ix} *Walt Whitman has somewhere a fine and just distinction between “loving by allowance” and “loving with personal love.” This distinction applies to books…”
Answers questions on Russell Conwell's lecture Acres of Diamonds, on finding opportunity close at hand, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the section.
““‘Any man,’ I said to him, ‘with the proper determination and ambition can study sufficiently at night to win his desire.’ “‘I have tried to think so,’ said he,…”
Answers questions on Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights: Heathcliff, Catherine Earnshaw and the two houses on the moors, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“## CHAPTER XVIII”
Answers questions on Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class: conspicuous consumption, conspicuous leisure and pecuniary emulation, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“The classics, and their position of prerogative in the scheme of education to which the higher seminaries of learning cling with such a fond predilection, serve…”
Answers questions on Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays: First Series, including Self-Reliance, Compensation and Friendship, quoting the 1841 text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the essay.
“The costly charm of the ancient tragedy, and indeed of all the old literature, is that the persons speak simply,—speak as persons who have great good sense with…”
Answers questions on the Analects of Confucius, sayings on learning, virtue and government, quoting James Legge's English translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.
“## THE CHINESE CLASSICS with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena, and copious indexes by James Legge”
Answers questions on Suetonius's Lives of the Twelve Caesars, from Julius Caesar and Augustus to Caligula, Nero and Domitian, quoting Alexander Thomson's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the life.
“The Epistles of this author may be reckoned amongst the most valuable productions of antiquity. Except those of the second book, and one or two in the first, th…”
Answers questions on Rousseau's The Social Contract: the general will, sovereignty and legitimate government, quoting G. D. H. Cole's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.
“Necessity raised up thrones; the arts and sciences have made them strong. Powers of the earth, cherish all talents and protect those who cultivate them.[1] Civi…”
