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Malory, Thomas. Le Morte d'Arthur. London: William Caxton, 1485, bk. 1, ch. 5.

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Malory, Thomas. Le Morte D'Arthur. Vol. 1, Penguin Classics, 1970, bk. 1, ch. 5.

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Kundera, Milan. L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]. Gallimard, 1984.

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Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, translated by Michael Henry Heim. Harper Perennial, 2009.

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Johnson, Samuel. "Idler." Universal Chronicle, 19 May 1759, no. 57.

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Wordsworth, William. "To a Butterfly." Poems, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1807, st. 2.

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Wordsworth, William. "To a Butterfly ('I've watch you')." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Molière. Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire amoureux [The Misanthrope, or the Cantankerous Lover]. King's Players, 4 June 1666, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris, France, act 1, sc. 4.

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Moliere. "The Misanthrope." The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays, translated by Maya Slater. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 1, sc. 4.

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De Chateaubriand, Francois Rene. Memoires d'outre Tomb [Memoirs from Beyond the Grave]. Vol. 2, Paris: Penaud frères, 1850, bk. 5, ch. 14.

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De Chateaubriand, Francois Rene. Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1768-1800, translated by Alex Andriesse. NYRB Classics, 2018.

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Mantel, Hilary. Bring Up the Bodies. Fourth Estate/Henry Holt and Co., 2012.

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Ricardo, David. On Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. London: John Murray, 1817.

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Ricardo, David. The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. Dover Publications, 2004.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "De La Solitude [Of Solitude]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

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

God made the country, and man made the town.

Wililam Cowper

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Cowper, William. The Task. London: Joseph Johnson, 1785, bk. 1.

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Cowper, William. "The Task." William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems, edited by James Sambrook. Routledge, 2016, bk. 1.

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North, Christopher. "Noctes Ambrosianae." Blackwood's Magazine, May 1830.

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. "On Elemental Instruction in Physiology." 1877. Lecture.

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Bentham, Jeremy. "Principles of the Penal Code." Theory of Legislation. Vol. 2, Boston: Weeks, Jordan & Company, 1840.

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Jagger, Mick and Keith Richards. "Mother's Little Helper." Performed by The Rolling Stones. Aftermath. Decca Records/London Recordings, 1966.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "In the Highlands, in the Country Places." Songs of Travel and Other Verses. London: Chatto & Windus, 1896.

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Joyce, James. "A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man." The Egoist. 2 Feb. 1914 - 1 Sept. 1915. Serial.

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Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by John Paul Riquelme. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, ch. 1.

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Keats, John. Endymion: A Poetic Romance. London: Taylor & Hessey, 1818, preface.

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Keats, John. "Endymion." John Keats: The Major Works, edited by Elizabeth Cook. Oxford University Press, 2009, preface.

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Cowley, Abraham. "The Garden." Works. c. 1668.

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Lamb, Charles. Letter to Robert Southey. 9 Aug. 1815.

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Dawkins, Richard. The Selfish Gene. Oxford University Press, 1976, ch. 1.