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Connolly, Cyril. Enemies of Promise. George Routledge & Sons, 1938, ch. 14.

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Trotsky, Leon. What Next? Vital Questions for the German Proletariat. Pioneer Publishers, 1932, ch. 14.

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Man and Superman." Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021, act 1. Originally published by Archibald and Constable Co., Ltd., 1903.

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Burke, Edmund. Two Letters to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France. London: F. and C. Rivington, 1796, letter 1.

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Burke, Edmund. Letters on a Regicide Peace." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009, letter 1.

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech in General Reply; First Day: Wednesday, May 28, 1794." Speeches in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, Esquire. 28 May 1794, Westminster Hall, Westminster, London, UK.

For where's the state beneath the firmament
That doth excel the bees for government?

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

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De Saluste du Bartas, Guillaume. La Semaine; ou Creation du monde [The First Week; or the Creation of the World]. Paris: Michel Gadoulleau and Jean Febvrier, 1578, first week, fifth day, pt. 1.

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Johnson, Samuel. "Butler." Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. London: C. Bathurst, et al., 1781.

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Valery, Paul. Moralites. Librairie Gallimard, 1932.

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Shakespeare, William. Othello. King's Men, 1 Nov. 1604, Palace of Whitehall, Westminster, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Othello." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 1.

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Jung, Carl and Aniela Jaffé. Erinnerungen, Träume, Gedanken [Memories, Dreams, Reflections], translated by Richard and Clara Winston. Exlibris, 1962.

How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world! and how much the best!

Charles James Fox

On the fall of the Bastille.

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Fox, Charles James. Letter to Richard Fitzpatrick. 30 July 1789.

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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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Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi. Il Gattopard [The Leopard]. Feltrinelli, 1958, ch. 2.

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Lampedusa, Giuseppe. The Leopard, translated by Archibald Colquhoun. Pantheon, 2007, ch. 2.

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Parkinson, C. Northcote. Parkinson's Law: The Pursuit of Progress. John Murray, 1958, ch. 10. Originally published as "Pension Point" in The Economist, c. 1958.

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Keynes, John Maynard. The End Of Laissez-faire. Hogarth Press, 1926, pt. 3.

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Keynes, John Maynard. "The End of Laissaz-faire." The Essential Keynes. Penguin, edited by Robert Skidelsky, 2016, ch. 3.

Museums have today become the new churches.

Christian Boltanski

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Boltanski, Christian. Interview with Tamar Garb. Christian Boltanski. Phaidon Press, 1997, p. 11.

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Arnold, Matthew. "Equality." Mixed Essays. London: Smith, Elder & Co./New York: Macmillan and Co., 1879.

Have regrets. They are fuel.

Geoff Dyer

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Dyer, Geoff. Quoted in "Ten Rules for Writing Fiction: Part 1." Guardian, 19 Feb. 2010, www.theguardian.com/books/2010/feb/20/ten-rules-for-writing-fiction-part-one.

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Hazlitt, William. "On Reading New Books." Monthly Magazine, July 1827.

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Hazlitt, William. "On Reading New Books." The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt. Vol. 9, Routledge, 2020.