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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Quoted in "Letter to Bernard Barton, May 16, 1826." Written by Charles Lamb. 16 May 1826.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches." The Strand Magazine. London, 1892.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches." The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2010.

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Harrison, William Henry. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1841, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Arnold, Matthew. "On Translating Homer: Last Words." 1862, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.

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Arnold, Matthew. "On Translating Homer: Last Words 1862." Culture and Anarchy and Other Selected Prose. Penguin Classics, 2015.

The public appears disposed to be amused even when they are conscious of being deceived.

P.T. Barnum

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Barnum, P. T. The Life of P. T. Barnum. New York: Redfield, 1855, ch. 7.

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Barnum, P. T. Barnum's Own Story: The Autobiography of P. T. Barnum. Dover Publications, 2017, ch. 7.

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Stendhal. Le Rouge et le Noir: Chronique du XIXe siècle [The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the 19th Century]. Vol. 2, Paris: A. Levasseur, c. 1830, ch. 22.

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Stendhal. The Red and the Black, translated by Catherine Slater. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2, ch. 22.

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Carnegie, Andrew. "Wealth." North American Review, June 1889.

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Carnegie, Andrew. "The Gospel of Wealth." The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings. Penguin Classics, 2006.

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Fry, Elizabeth. Note found among her papers. c. 1848.

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Fry, Elizabeth. Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry, edited by Katharine Fry and Rachel Elizabeth Cresswell. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2011, ch. 10.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Village Blacksmith." The Knickerbocker. New York City: Lewis Gaylord Clark, Nov. 1840, I. 1.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Village Blacksmith." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems & Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, I. 1.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Letter to Maria Gisborne." Posthumous Poems. London: John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824, I. 193.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Letter to Maria Gisborne." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 193.

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Buchanan, James. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1857, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Harrison, William Henry. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1841, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Cleveland, Grover. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1885, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Smith, Sydney. Quoted in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith, by Saba Holland. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855, ch. 2.

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McKinley, William. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1897, Front of original Senate Wing, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Nelson, Horatio. Letter to the Earl of Camden, the Secretary of War. c. 1804.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

Alexander Smith

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Smith, Alexander. "Of Death and the Fear of Dying." Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country. London: Strahan & Co., 1863.

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James, Henry. "The Art of Fiction." Longman's Magazine. London: C. J. Longman, 4 Sept. 1884.

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James, Henry. "The Art of Fiction." The Portable Henry James. Penguin Classics, 2003.