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If there was a little shine of gold on the moon, the mankind would have been to the moon even in the 19th century!

Mehmet Murat ildan
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In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

Douglas Sirk
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Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.

Claire Tomalin
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You grow. You are large. You are a 19th century poem.All of America is inside you,a catalogue of lives and landand burrowing things.-From "Catalogue

Donika Kelly, Bestiary: Poems
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The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently.

Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
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The 19th century had chosen only to remember the happy warrior. The 20th century only the blood come gargling. Both are essential to any understanding of Trafalgar.

Adam Nicolson, Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar
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In the Catskills, nostalgia runs backwards. The upwardly mobile Jewish masses of the 1950s and 1960s have been replaced by the Jews of 19th century Poland.

Kevin Haworth, Famous Drownings in Literary History: Essays on 21st-Century Jewishness
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Americans in 1763 lived always in the shadow and presence of death. Death was not yet romanticized as it would be in the 19th century, nor yet sanitized as it would be in the 20th century.

Colin G. Calloway, The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America
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Here’s the solution. We need a CO2 tax, revenue-neutral, to replace taxation on employment, which was invented by Bismarck — and some things have changed since the 19th Century.

Al Gore
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And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.

Jane Campion
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