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Washington, George. The Papers of George Washington: Revolutionary War Series June-August 1776, edited by W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig. Vol. 5, University of Virginia Press, 1993.

Swift, Jonathan. "A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind." Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises: Polite Conversation, Directions Servants and Other Works, edited by Valerie Rumbold. Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Flaubert, Gustave. Sentimental Education, translated by Patrick Coleman and Helen Constantine. Oxford University Press, 2016, pt. 1, ch. 5.

Hamilton, Alexander. "No. 70: Energy in the executive. First ingredient: Unity.--Hamilton." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

Romulus. Quoted in Satires and Epistles, written by Horace, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 2.

Roosevelt, Franklin D. "First Inaugral Address: Washington, DC, March 4, 1933." Great Speeches, edited by John Grafton. Dover, 1999.

Schreiner, Olive. The Story of an African Farm. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 2, ch. 4.

Madame de Stael. Corinne, or Italy, translated by Sylvia Raphael. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 18, ch. 5, st. 4.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Pro Milone [For Milo], translated by D. H. Berry. Oxford University Press, 2009, sect. 10.

Epicurus. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 10, ch. 1, sect. 140.

Blake, William. "[To] Mr. Butts August 16, 1803 'O why was I born with a different face.'" The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. University of California Press, 2008.