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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Friendship." The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Brooks Atkinson. Modern Library, 2000.

Petronius. "The Satyricon." The Satyricon and The Apocolocyntosis of the Divine Claudius, translated by J. P. Sullivan. Penguin Classics, 1986, sect. 43.

Wilde, Oscar. "The Soul of Man Under Socialism." The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose, edited by Linda Dowling. Penguin Classics, 2001.

Franklin, Benjamin. "The Morals of Chess." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

Wells, H. G. "Lord of the Dynamos." Selected Stories of H. G. Wells, edited by Ursula K. Le Guin. Modern Library, 2004.

Wilde, Oscar. "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Paine, Thomas. "Rights of Man Part the second." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Proust, Marcel. The Fugitive, edited and translated by Peter Collier. Penguin Classics, 2021.

Pliny the Elder. Natural History: A Selection, translated by John F. Healy. Penguin Classics, 1991, preface.