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Hamilton, Alexander. "No. 65: Other powers: consent to executive appointments; impeachments.--Hamilton." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

Burns, Robert. "Tam O'Shanter." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited by Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994.

Wallace, David Foster. This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion about Living a Compassionate Life. Little, Brown and Company, 2009.

Hughes, Langston. "Proem." The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015, I. 1.

Wilde, Oscar. "An Ideal Husband." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 4.

Donne, John. "From a sermon preached at Whitehall (8 March 1622)." John Donne: The Major Works: Including Songs and Sonnets and Sermons, edited by John Carey. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Pliny the Younger. Complete Letters, translated by P. G. Walsh. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2, no. 15.

Burke, Edmund. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

De Montaigne, Michel. "On Affectionate Relationships." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

Sei Shonagon. The Pillow Book, translated by Meredith McKinney. Penguin Classics, 2007.

Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. The Souls of Black Folk, edited by Brent Hayes Edwards. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 14.

Solon. Quoted in "Solon." Greek Lives, written by Plutarch, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2009.