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Maugham, William Somerset. Of Human Bondage. Signet, 2007, ch. 122.

Lord Byron. "Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa." The Collected Poems of Lord Byron. Wordsworth, 1994.

Kierkegaard, Soren. Fear and Trembling, translated by Alastair Hannay. Penguin Classics, 1986.

Adams, Abigail. Quoted in Abigail and John Adams: The Americanization of Sensibility, written by G. J. Barker-Benfield. University of Chicago Press, 2010, ch. 8.

Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara. Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021, act 3.

Bentham, Jeremy. "A Fragment on Government." A Comment on the Commentaries and A Fragment on Government, edited by J.H. Burns and H.L.A Hart. Clarendon Press, 2009, preface.

Herbert, George. "Outlandish Proverbs." Herbert: The Complete English Works, edited by Ann Pasternak Slater. Everyman's Library, 1995, no. 339.

Ruskin, John. Modern Painters 4. The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 6, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pt. 4, ch. 3.

Pissarro, Camille. Quoted in Letters of the Great Artists: From Blake to Pollock, edited by Richard Friedenthal. Random House, 1963.