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Whoever would lie usefully should lie seldom.

Lord Hervey

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Lord Hervey. Memoirs of the Reign of George II, edited by J. W. Croker. London: John Murray, 1848.

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Berlin, Isaiah. "Two Concepts of Liberty." 31 Oct. 1958, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.

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Berlin, Isaiah. Isaiah Berlin and the Politics of Freedom: ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ 50 Years Later, edited by Bruce Baum and Robert Nichols. Routledge, 2015.

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Goering, Hermann. Directive to Reinhard Heydrich. 31 July 1941.

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Tennyson, Alfred. "Ulysses." Poems. Vol. 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1842, I. 22.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "Ulysses." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 22.

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Bacon, Francis. The Advancement of Learning. London: Oxford: Rob Youn and Ed Forrest, 1605, bk. 2, ch. 7, sect. 5.

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Bacon, Francis. "The Advancement of Learning." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 2, ch. 2, sect. 5.

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Cowper, William. "Charity." Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. London: J. Johnson, 1782, I. 159.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "De la Vanite [Of Vanity]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "On Vanity." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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Seneca the Younger. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium [Moral Letters to Lucilius]. c. 65 AD.

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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Letters on Ethics, translated by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long. University of Chicago Press, 2017.

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Ibarruri, Dolores. Radio broadcast. 19 July 1936, Madrid, Spain.

You should always except the present company.

John O'Keeffe

The London Hermit

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O'Keeffe, John. The London Hermit; or, Rambles in Dorsetshire. 1793, Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 2.

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Wordsworth, William. Poems, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807.

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Wordsworth, William. "I wandered lonely as a cloud." William Wordsworth: The Major Works including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008.

For the sublime and the beautiful and interesting, you don't have to look far away.

Hedda Sterne

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Sterne, Hedda. "Hedda Sterne." Interviewed by Joan Simon. Art in America, Feb. 2007, www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/magazine/hedda-sterne

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Pope, Alexander. Letter to Bathurst. Of The Use of Riches. 1733, I. 155-156.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Epistle to Bathurst." Selected Poetry, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, I. 155-156.

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Southey, Robert. Madoc. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1805, pt. 1.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "De l'Institution des Enfants [Of the Education of Children]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "On Educating Children." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Deserted Village. London: W. Griffin, 1770, I. 398.

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Jonson, Ben. Volpone. King's Men. Spring 1606, Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 1.

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Jonson, Ben. "Volpone." Ben Jonson: Five Plays, edited by G. A. Wilkes. Oxford University Press, 2009, act 1, sc. 1.

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Orwell, George. "The English Revolution." The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius. Searchlight Books, edited by T. R. Fyvel and George Orwell. Secker & Warburg, 1941, pt. 3, sec. 2.

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Orwell, George. "The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius." The Collected Essays, Journalism And Letters Of George Orwell, vol. 2: My Country Right or Left 1940-1943, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. David R. Godine, 2007, no. 17, pt. 3, sec. 2.

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Pope, Alexander and John Arbuthnot. Letter to Jonathan Swift. 5 Dec. 1732.

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Eco, Umberto. Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose]. Bompiani, 1980.

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Eco, Humberto. The Name of the Rose, translated by William Weaver. HarperVia, 2014.