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  1. The Republic

    If wealth requires enslaving your noblest part, then riches are no profit.
    Plato

  2. Treasure Island

    “Darby M’Graw! Darby M’Graw!”—a wail that rises and falls, always ending with a demand for rum.
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  3. Essays — First Series

    Trust your first thought—what feels true to you now may become the universal sense tomorrow.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  4. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    It wasn’t the whale’s size but its whiteness that appalled me—the color itself held a nameless, overpowering horror.
    Herman Melville

  5. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    A tattooed, clean-faced cannibal offers charity—and suddenly he seems more trustworthy than any drunken Christian.
    Herman Melville

  6. Shakespeare's Sonnets

    Picture crumbling towers and seas gaining shore—if whole kingdoms fall, why should your love be spared?
    William Shakespeare

  7. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

    Sold away to the dank rice swamps—what becomes of daughters torn from Virginia when fever and the whip wait?
    John Chua

  8. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

    They ranked children with swine and silvery-headed age with horses—what does it say about a society that weighs humans like livestock?
    John Chua

  9. Crime and Punishment

    Her order to confess aloud ignites a single spark in him—and he falls to the earth, overwhelmed.
    Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

  10. Crime and Punishment

    Maybe I'm mad—maybe everything I saw was only a phantom.
    Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

  11. Crime and Punishment

    "They're already on his track"—one rash word could betray him; can anything still save him now?
    Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

  12. Crime and Punishment

    A shot rings out—why does Raskolnikov still climb the stairs as if nothing has happened?
    Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

  13. Crime and Punishment

    The blow fell on the crown of her skull; blood gushed like an overturned glass and the body collapsed.
    Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

  14. Crime and Punishment

    He almost stands to confess, then freezes—what invisible force pins him back to his chair?
    Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

  15. Crime and Punishment

    He insists he didn't do it—but the inspector's calm certainty makes denial sound impossible.
    Dostoyevsky, Fyodor