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Shakespeare, William. "Love's Labour's Lost." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 3.

Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics, 2006, ch. 6.

Herodotus. The Histories, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 7.

Madison, James. "No. 10: An extensive republic a remedy for mischiefs of faction.--Madison." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

Van Gogh, Vincent. Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh, edited by Irving Stone and Jean Stone. Plume, 1995.

Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Ceremonies and Respects." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Spenser, Edmund. "Two Cantos of Mutabilitie." Spenser: The Faerie Queene, edited by A. C. Hamilton, Hiroshi Yamashita, and Toshiyuki Suzuki. Longman, 2006.

Milton, John. "Areopagitica." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008.

The Quran, translated by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem. Oxford University Press, 2005, ch. 69.

Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War, translated by Martin Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 1.

Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 6. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 68.