“He's somewhat lewd; but a well-meaning mind;
Weeps much; fights little; but is wond'rous kind.”

Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 139, “Taglios: The Great General” (p. 762)

1920s, Notes on Democracy (1926)
Context: Liberty means self-reliance, it means resolution, it means enterprise, it means the capacity for doing without. The free man is one who has won a small and precarious territory from the great mob of his inferiors, and is prepared and ready to defend it and make it support him. All around him are enemies, and where he stands there is no friend. He can hope for little help from other men of his own kind, for they have battles of their own to fight. He has made of himself a sort of god in his little world, and he must face the responsibilities of a god, and the dreadful loneliness.

Variant: People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.
Source: On Being Blonde (2007), p. 54

12. "The Ordinary Hairpins"
Trent Intervenes (1938)

Samuel Pepys Diary, November 5, 1665.
Criticism

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

NewsHour interview http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/white_house/jan-june07/bush_01-16.html with Jim Lehrer in response to the question “Why have you not asked more Americans to sacrifice something?” regarding the Iraq War (January 16, 2007)
2000s, 2007

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

The Way of Life, According to Laotzu, 1944.