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Petrarch. Letter to Dionigi da Borgo San Sepolcro. c. 1336.

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Petrarch. "To Dionigi da Borgo San Sepolcro of the Augustinian Order and Professor of Sacred Scripture, concerning some of his personal problems." Letters of Familiar Matters (Rerum Familiarum Libri), translated by Aldo Bernardo. Vol. 1, Italica Press, 2008.

The more one gets to know of men, the more one values dogs.

Alphonse Toussenel

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De Toussenel, Alphonse. L'Esprit des betes. Paris: Librairie societaire, 1847.

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Nabokov, Vladimir. Pale Fire. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1962.

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Gilbert, William Schwenck. His Excellency. Composed by F. Osmond Carr. 1894, Lyric Theatre, London, England, UK.

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De Nerval, Gerard. "Le Christ aux Oliviers." L'Artiste, 31 Mar. 1844.

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De Nerval, Gerard. "Le Christ aux Oliviers." De Nerval: Selected Writings, translated by Richard Sieburth. Penguin Classics, 1999.

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Gaskell, Elizabeth. Letter to George Smith. 4 Aug. 1859.

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Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Letters of Mrs. Gaskell. Mandolin, 1997.

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Ruskin, John. Modern Painters. Vol. 5, London: Smith, Elder & Company, 1860, pt. 9, ch. 7, sect. 14.

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Ruskin, John. Modern Painters 5. The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 7, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pt. 9, ch. 7, sect. 14.

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Woolf, Virginia. Orlando: A Biography. Hogarth Press, 1928, ch. 4.

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Woolf, Virginia. Orlando. Penguin Classics, 2019, ch. 4.

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

The illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

Clement Attlee

On Russian communism.

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Attlee, Clement. Speech at Aarhus University. 11 Apr. 1956, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

George Chapman

All Fools

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Chapman, George. "All Fools." Children of the Queen's Revels, 1605, Court before King James I, England, UK, act 5, sc. 2.

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Chapman, George. "All Fools." Elizabethan Comedies: A Basic Anthology. Dover Publications, 2017, act 5, sc. 2.

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Gay, John. "Dione." Poems on Several Occasions. London: J. Roberts, 1720, act 4, sc. 6.

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Auden, W. H. "Law, say the gardeners, is the sun." Another Time. Faber and Faber/Random House, 1940.

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Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler. London: Richard Marriot, 1653, introduction.

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Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler, edited by Marjorie Swann. Oxford University Press, 2014, introduction.

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North, Christopher. "Noctes Ambrosianae." Blackwood's Magazine, Apr. 1829.

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Engels, Frederick. Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England [The Condition of the Working Class in England]. Leipzig: Otto Wigand, 1845, ch. 7.

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Engels, Frederick. The Condition of the Working Class in England, translated by Mrs. F. Kelley Wischnewetzy, edited by David McLellan. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 7.

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Pepys, Samuel. Diary entry. 30 July 1666.

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Dryden, John. Tyrannick Love, or The Royal Martyr. Performed by Nell Gwyn and Margaret Hughes and Michael Mohun and Charles Hart and Rebecca Marshall and William Cartwright. King's Company, 1669, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, England, UK, prologue.

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Dryden, John. "Tyrannick Love." The Works of John Dryden, edited by Maximillian E. Nozak and George R. Guffey. Vol. 10, University of California, 1970, prologue.

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Bacon, Francis. The Advancement of Learning. London: Oxford: Rob Youn and Ed Forrest, 1605, bk. 1, ch. 5, sect. 11.

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Bacon, Francis. "The Advancement of Learning." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, ch. 5, sect. 11.

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Macaulay, Thomas. The History of England: From the Accession of James II. Vol. 1, Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1848.

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Macaulay, Thomas. The History of England from the Accession of James II, 5 Volume Set. The Folio Society, 2009.