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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Jill Bennett

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Bennett, Jill. "Sayings of the Week." The Observer, 12 Sept. 1982.

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Pope John Paul II. Homily of John Paul II. Eucharistic Celebration, Apstolic Journey to the United States. 8 Oct. 1995, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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Milton, John. "A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle." 29 Sept. 1634, Ludlow Castle, Ludlow, England, UK, line 410.

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Milton, John. "A Masque...Presented at Ludlow Castle ['Comus']." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, line 410.

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Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 1.

God loveth a cheerful giver.

Apostle Paul

2nd Corinthians 9:7

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (2nd Corinthians 9:7).

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Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869, ch. 4.

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Mill, John Stuart. "The Subjection of Women." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 4.

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Housman, Alfred Edward. A Shropshire Lad. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., 1896, no. 62, I. 21.

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Housman, Alfred Edward. "A Shropshire Lad." A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems, edited by Archie Burnett. Penguin Classics, 2010, no. 62, I. 21.

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Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 4, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1788, ch. 38.

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Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 4. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 38.

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Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 1, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1776, ch. 2.

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Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 1. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 2.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Callaghan, James. Speech at a Labour Party Conference. Labour Party Conference. 28 Sept. 1976, Blackpool, England, UK.

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Lawrence, D.H. Studies in Classic American Literature. Thomas Seltzer, 1923, ch. 8.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. Religio Medici. London, 1643, pt. 1, sect. 6.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Religio Medici (1643)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, pt. 1, sect. 6.

What's not destroyed by Time's devouring hand?
Where's Troy, and where's the May-pole in the Strand?

James Bramston

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Bramston, James. The Art of Politics. London: Lawton Gilliver, 1729.

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Maugham, William Somerset. The Circle: A Comedy in Three Acts. 3 Mar. 1921, Haymarket Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3.

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Maugham, William Somerset. The Circle: A Comedy in Three Acts. Cornell University Library, 2009, act 3.

Music alone with sudden charms can bind
The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.

William Congreve

Hymn to Harmony

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Congreve, William. A Hymn to Harmony: Written in Honour of St. Cecilia's day, M DCC I. London: Jacob Tonson, 1703.

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Collier, Mary. "The Woman's Labour: an Epistle to Mr Stephen Duck." The Woman's Labour: an Epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck: in Answer to His Late Poem, Called The Thresher's Labour. To which are Added, The Three Wise Sentences, Taken from the First Book of Esdras, Ch. III. and IV. London, 1739.

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Collier, Mary. "The Woman's Labour." The Woman's Labour and Other Poems. Renard Press, 2021.

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Conciliation with America." House of Commons. 22 Mar. 1775, Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London, England, UK.

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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Disraeli, Benjamin. Vivian Grey. Vol. 4, London: Henry Colburn, 1826, bk. 6, ch. 7.

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Graves, Robert. "Sick Love." Poems 1929. Seizin Press, 1929, l. 10-12.

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Graves, Robert. "Sick Love." The Complete Poems: In One Volume. Penguin Books, 2003, l. 10-12.