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Indeed, so obvious does this identification seem to us that we consider its slightest contradiction obvious nonsense, and yet psychoanalysis cannot avoid raising this contradiction; it cannot accept the identity of the conscious with the psychic.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
With a stroke of the pen the Labour Congress in Sydney called out not only "all the miners from the Western mines," but "all shearers, rouseabouts, carriers and others in any way connected with the wool industry "—plain wool now, and never mind who took it from the sheeps' backs.
— from Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge
Alexander Pope so well imitates Homer, that, as an English critic once said, in speaking of his translation of that Prince of Grecian Poets—'a time might come, should the annals of Greece and England be confounded in some convulsion of Nature, when it might be a grave question of debate whether Pope translated Homer, or Homer Pope.'
— from Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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