I'm an English literature teacher and my awareness of RP principles has caused me to notice an incredible wealth of RP examples in much of the literature I teach, spanning across millennia. I thought I would share a few of my favorites from different eras to illustrate a few points:

1. We often point out that TRP is truth, this needs no further explanation. Literature is a means of finding the truth in life. The best authors have always striven to discover the truth of the world around them, and capture that in writing.

2. TRP principles are as old as human civilization itself, if not older. For as long as writing has existed, you can find the same messages that we preach here.

Let's start with the oldest surviving text on the planet (~2000 BCE): The Epic of Gilgamesh. The first paragraph after the introduction reads:

GILGAMESH went abroad in the world, but he met with none who could withstand his arms till be came to Uruk. But the men of Uruk muttered in their houses, ‘[...] His lust leaves no virgin to her lover, neither the warrior's daughter nor the wife of the noble; yet this is the shepherd of the city, wise, comely, and resolute.'

First sentence of the oldest text ever points out what quality? Gilgamesh's ripped-as-fuck arms. Other men in town hate the dude because he scores all the women.

Lesson: Go workout. Haters gonna hate, don't give a fuck.

My second selection comes from The Canterbury Tales, specifically The Merchant's Tale. The tale predates Chaucer's version in the late 1300s.

In the Merchant's Tale, a 60-year-old knight (January) wants a 20-year-old wife. However, his friend Justinus warns him:

And therefore the best counsel I know is, despair not, sir, but have in your memory that perhaps she may be your purgatory. She may be God’s instrument and God’s scourge; then shall your soul skip up to heaven swifter than an arrow out of a bow. I hope to God that hereafter you shall learn that there is no such felicity in marriage, and never shall be, that will hinder your salvation

Lesson: Marriage could be purgatory.

January gets married anyway. On the wedding night they consummate, but the narrator throws this warning out there:

But God knows what May thought in her heart, when she saw him sitting up in his shirt and nightcap, with his lean neck; she did not think his playing was worth a damn.

May doesn't get the tingles from old-ass January. She DOES get them from his young squire Damien. January goes blind, and while the two sit in his garden, Damien climbs up into a pear tree. May steps on January's back to climb up and "get a pear." She gets a lot more than that.

Lesson: Give her the tingles or someone else will, and she'll fuck that person.

January's sight miraculously returns in time to see Damien plowing his wife. What does May say?

“On peril of my soul, I lie not; it was taught me that to heal your eyes there was nothing better than to struggle with a man up in a tree. God knows, I did it with good intent.”

Lesson: Women hamster their way out of responsibility for their actions.

The narrator sums it up best at the end:

“Now I pray God keep me from such a wife! Lo what tricks and wiles are in women! They are ever as busy as bees to deceive us simple men, and they will ever swerve from the truth, it is well proved by this Merchant’s tale.

The last example comes from F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story Winter Dreams (1922). The star of it is Judy Jones, who is smoking hot. She meets Dexter and confides how she feels:

I like you. But I've just had a terrible afternoon. There was a man I cared about, and this afternoon he told me out of a clear sky that he was poor as a church-mouse. He'd never even hinted it before.

She goes on to ask Dexter a question:

"Are you poor?"

"No," he said frankly, "I'm probably making more money than any man my age in the Northwest.

There was a pause. Then she smiled and the corners of her mouth drooped and an almost imperceptible sway brought her closer to him, looking up into his eyes.

Lesson: Money matters to women.

Judy Jones doesn't need to settle for just one wealthy man. She's an HB10 and knows it. (My emphasis added)

He [Dexter] was, as he found before the summer ended, one of a varying dozen who circulated about her. Each of them had at one time been favored above all others--about half of them still basked in the solace of occasional sentimental revivals. Whenever one showed signs of dropping out through long neglect, she granted him a brief honeyed hour, which encouraged him to tag along for a year or so longer.

Lesson: Women love having orbiters, and will string them along as long as possible.

The best part of the story is the ending though, which really confirms everything we know. Dexter has moved on but later finds out Judy is engaged with children, now just looking, and liked by other women. Who is this woman, he wonders.

"Lots of women fade just like that," Devlin snapped his fingers.

Lesson: The wall is real, it drives women's actions.

What I always tell my students when we study literature is that the things that change are irrelevant. They couldn't stand the test of time, they were weak, they matter not. The things that don't change, those eternal truths, those are the things to pay attention to. I've just shown you 4000 years of RP truth in three texts.