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Moliere. "The Clever Women." The Miser and Other Plays, translated by David Coward and John Wood. Penguin Classics, 2000, act 2, sc. 7.

Shakespeare, William. "The First Part of Henry the Sixth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 2.

Heraclitus. "Heraclitus of Ephesus." The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2009, F53 - DK B44.

Kierkegaard, Soren. Either/Or: A Fragment of Life, translated by Alistair Hanny. Penguin Classics, 1992, pt. 1.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "A Defence of Poetry." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Hegel, G. W. F. Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, translated by H. B. Nisbet. Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Swift, Jonathan. "A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind." Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises: Polite Conversation, Directions Servants and Other Works, edited by Valerie Rumbold. Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Flaubert, Gustave. Sentimental Education, translated by Patrick Coleman and Helen Constantine. Oxford University Press, 2016, pt. 1, ch. 5.

Romulus. Quoted in Satires and Epistles, written by Horace, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 2.

Madame de Stael. Corinne, or Italy, translated by Sylvia Raphael. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 18, ch. 5, st. 4.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Pro Milone [For Milo], translated by D. H. Berry. Oxford University Press, 2009, sect. 10.

Epicurus. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 10, ch. 1, sect. 140.

Blake, William. "[To] Mr. Butts August 16, 1803 'O why was I born with a different face.'" The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. University of California Press, 2008.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Crabbed Age and Youth." Essays I: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, edited by Robert-Louis Abrahamson. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 2.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge (2nd ed 1836)." The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, vol. 14: Table Talk, edited by Kathleen Coburn and Bart Winer. Princeton University Press, 2019.

Tennyson, Alfred. "The Ancient Sage." Tennyson's Poetry, edited by Robert W. Hill, Jr. W. W. Norton & Company, 1999, l. 68.