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Thoreau, Henry David. "Walking." Civil Disobedience and Other Essays. Dover Publications, 1993.

Lincoln, Abraham. "Second Inaugral Address, March 4, 1865." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 2018.

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is, translated by Duncan Large. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 4.

Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, edited by Pauline Phemister. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 4, ch. 7.

Blake, William. "The Clod & the Pebble." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 1.

Jefferson, Thomas. "Dr. Benjamin Rush, Sept. 23, 1800." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Autobiography, The Declaration of Independence & His Public and Private Letters, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library, 1998.

Lincoln, Abraham. "Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

De Montaigne, Michel. "We Can Savour Nothing Pure." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.