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"ref": "1888 October 21, Cook, “Correspondence”, in Union Pacific Employes’ Magazine, volume III, number 10, published November 1888, page 317, column 2",
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"text": "Go, carrion thineself among the tombs; go and ordure thineself in other filthy things and leave true philosophy to real philosophers. Thou believest thineself to be a philosopher; do not deceive thineself.",
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"ref": "1893, “Miscellaneous”, in List of Duplicates in Michigan State Library for Sale or Exchange, page 6",
"text": "Beecher, Rev. Thos., Let Another Man Praise Thee, Not Thineself.",
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"ref": "1895 April 25, W. A. Toombs, “Chronicles”, in The Bee, sixth year, number 17, Earlington, Ken., column 5",
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"ref": "1900 November 5, “Disgusted by Dockery. Thousand Left Kansas City Hall When He Began to Speak. […]”, in St. Louis Globe-Democrat, volume 26, number 170, St. Louis, Mo., section “Dockery Incident”, page 2, column 3",
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"ref": "1902, Light, page 145, column 2",
"text": "When thou dost feel anger (a quality of the lower man) boiling up within thy soul’s casket, quickly turn and throw thineself upon the breast of silence.",
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"ref": "1902 October 26, Paul Lambeth, “A Continuous Performance Theatre is Started. Aristocracy in Business. […]”, in The Times, volume 17, number 229, Richmond, Va., section “For School Use”, page 25, columns 1–2",
"text": "Thou shalt honor good men and true women, esteeming everybody the same as thineself and bow the knee before none.",
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"ref": "1909 July 22, Ida Clifton Hinshaw, “Prayer”, in The Union Republican, volume XXXVIII, number 29, Winston-Salem, N.C., page one, column 1",
"text": "Prayer is giving, utterly, lavishly—thineself—all, / Prayer is Heaven’s gate unlocked at a sinner’s call.",
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"ref": "1913 January 2, Meis Clothing Co., “…The Ten Commandments… (Businessfied)”, in The Helena Star, volume 7, number 52, Helena, Okla.",
"text": "Thou shalt not steal from thineself, by paying others too much for clothes.",
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"ref": "1914, Blue and White, page 71",
"text": "Thy matriculation requirements are that thou shalt conduct thineself with an humble spirit.",
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"ref": "1914, Happy Days: A Paper for Young and Old, page 10",
"text": "Hie thineself hither.",
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"ref": "1915 December 9, “Local Items”, in Canadian Valley Record, volume XI, Canton, Okla., column 3",
"text": "Yea, Pauline, it behooveth thee to examine thineself closely, e’en as the time for New Year resolutions draweth nigh.",
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"ref": "1917 March 22, Blue Ribbon Laundry, “Inform Thineself”, in Montgomery Times, Montgomery, Ala., page eight",
"text": "Inform Thineself / Not only in matters etherial, but worldly as well.",
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"ref": "1919 November 12, Jack Lait, “In the Wake of the News”, in The Illustrated Daily News, number 120, New York, N.Y., page 5, column 2",
"text": "IF thou, Jack Lait, Knight of the Cap and Bells, wouldst bring back a smile to the anguished faces of the multitude, and still for a time the tongues that clacque in the lantern jaws of the arid few who would build an ark at the approach of a sandstorm; then lend an ear, lad, like a true knight, and prove thineself worthy of thine sires.",
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"ref": "1922, Champat Rai Jain, “Mythology”, in Confluence of Opposites, 3rd edition, page 265",
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"ref": "1923 January, Henry J. Pulver, “Views and Reviews”, in The Silent Worker: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine For, By and About the Deaf of the English-Reading World, volume 35, number 4, Trenton, N.J., page 144, column 2",
"text": "Mayhap, thou dost know a damsel in Pawtucket whom thou dost deem passing fair, and whom thou fain wouldst hitch to thineself.",
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"ref": "1923 April 27, Hugh S. Fullerton, “The Ten Commandments of Sports”, in The Benson Times, volume 20, number 17, Omaha, Neb., page 3, column 2",
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"ref": "2003 June 22, Bill Brownstein, “OK, I’m seduced – this is Nirvana. Wait, it’s Montreal?”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., page B1",
"text": "For starters, if you’re going to pig out here, you’d best be able to heal thineself, or pack a personal physician in your carry-on luggage.",
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"text": "Go, carrion thineself among the tombs; go and ordure thineself in other filthy things and leave true philosophy to real philosophers. Thou believest thineself to be a philosopher; do not deceive thineself.",
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"ref": "1895 April 25, W. A. Toombs, “Chronicles”, in The Bee, sixth year, number 17, Earlington, Ken., column 5",
"text": "“Art not thou fully ashamed of thineself, being fully sufficient to make a horse snort.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "1900 November 5, “Disgusted by Dockery. Thousand Left Kansas City Hall When He Began to Speak. […]”, in St. Louis Globe-Democrat, volume 26, number 170, St. Louis, Mo., section “Dockery Incident”, page 2, column 3",
"text": "They well knew that his unalterable rule in public life was “never commit thineself, lest it be your undoing.”",
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},
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"ref": "1902 October 26, Paul Lambeth, “A Continuous Performance Theatre is Started. Aristocracy in Business. […]”, in The Times, volume 17, number 229, Richmond, Va., section “For School Use”, page 25, columns 1–2",
"text": "Thou shalt honor good men and true women, esteeming everybody the same as thineself and bow the knee before none.",
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"ref": "1909 July 22, Ida Clifton Hinshaw, “Prayer”, in The Union Republican, volume XXXVIII, number 29, Winston-Salem, N.C., page one, column 1",
"text": "Prayer is giving, utterly, lavishly—thineself—all, / Prayer is Heaven’s gate unlocked at a sinner’s call.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "1913 January 2, Meis Clothing Co., “…The Ten Commandments… (Businessfied)”, in The Helena Star, volume 7, number 52, Helena, Okla.",
"text": "Thou shalt not steal from thineself, by paying others too much for clothes.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1914, Blue and White, page 71",
"text": "Thy matriculation requirements are that thou shalt conduct thineself with an humble spirit.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "1914, Happy Days: A Paper for Young and Old, page 10",
"text": "Hie thineself hither.",
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},
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"text": "Yea, Pauline, it behooveth thee to examine thineself closely, e’en as the time for New Year resolutions draweth nigh.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "1917 March 22, Blue Ribbon Laundry, “Inform Thineself”, in Montgomery Times, Montgomery, Ala., page eight",
"text": "Inform Thineself / Not only in matters etherial, but worldly as well.",
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},
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"ref": "1919 November 12, Jack Lait, “In the Wake of the News”, in The Illustrated Daily News, number 120, New York, N.Y., page 5, column 2",
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"text": "Mayhap, thou dost know a damsel in Pawtucket whom thou dost deem passing fair, and whom thou fain wouldst hitch to thineself.",
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