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Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. W. W. Norton & Co., 2015, bk. 1, ch. 1.

Saint Jerome. "Letter LII." Select Letters of Saint Jerome. Aeterna Press, 2015, sect. 7.

Twain, Mark. "Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany." Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays 1891-1910, edited by Louis J. Budd. Library of America, 1992.

Keats, John. "Endymion." John Keats: Selected Poems, edited by John Barnard. Penguin Classics, 2007, preface.

Adams, Henry.Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 6.

Jefferson, Thomas. "John Adams, Aug. 15, 1820." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Autobiography, The Declaration of Independence & His Public and Private Letters, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library, 1998.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "The Godlike." The Essential Goethe, edited and translated by Matthew Bell. Princeton University Press, 2018.

Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 24.

Defoe, Daniel. Moll Flanders: A Norton Critical Edition, edited by Albert J. Rivero. W.W. Norton & Company, 2003.