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Milton, John. "Samson Agonistes." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, I. 184.

Virgil. "The Georgics." The Eclogues and The Georgics, translated by C. Day Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2.

Foote, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson. Written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 101.

Plautus, Titus Maccius. "The Haunted House." Four Comedies: The Braggart Soldier; The Brothers Menaechmus; The Haunted House; The Pot of Gold, translated by Erich Segal. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 3, sc. 2.

Swift, Jonathan. "The Preface of the Author." A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works. Dover Publications, 1996.

Hardy, Thomas. The Hand of Ethelberta, edited by Tim Dolin. Penguin Classics, 1998.

Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 1. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 26.

Sallust. "The War with Catiline." The War with Catiline and The War with Jugurtha, translated by John T. Ramsey J. C. Rolfe. Harvard University Press, 2013.

Einstein, Albert. Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb. Princeton University Press, 2013, ch. 8.

Blake, William. "The Tyger." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. "Letter to Lady Bute." The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Volume III: 1752-1762, edited by Robert Halsband. Oxford University Press, 1967.

Plutarch. "Demetrius." Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Roman Lives, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2009.