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Lamb, Charles [published as Elia]. "Popular Fallacies: IX, That the Worst Puns Are the Best." The London Magazine, 1826.

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Hesse, Herman. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend [Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth]. Fischer Verlag, 1919.

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Hesse, Herman. Demian, translated by Damion Searls. Penguin Classics, 2013.

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More, Hannah. An address to the meeting in Spa Fields. 1817, London, England, UK.

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Beckett, Samuel. "Samuel Beckett Talks About Beckett." Vogue, Dec. 1969.

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Sand, George. Impressions et Souvenirs [Impressions and Remembrances]. Paris: Michel Lévy, 1873, ch. 8.

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Blake, William. "To the Public." Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion. London, c. 1820.

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Blake, William. "Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. University of California Press, 2008.

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Einstein, Albert. "The Goal of Human Existence." NBC Broadcast for the United Jewish Appeal. 11 Apr. 1943.

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Einstein, Albert. "The Goal of Human Existence." Out of My Later Years. Philosophical Library, 2015, ch. 51.

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Theognis. Elegies. c. 541 BC.

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Theognis. "Elegies." Hesiod and Theognis: Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies, translated by Dorothea Wender. Penguin Classics, 1976.

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Gay, John. "The Squire and his Cur." Fables. London: John Knapton, Paul Knapton, and T. Cox, 1738, pt. 2, I. 27.

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Wellesley, Arthur. Letter from the field of Waterloo. June 1815.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Madamoiselle Leroyer de Chantepie. 18 Mar. 1857.

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Flaubert, Gustave. The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1830-1857, translated and edited by Francis Steegmuller. Faber and Faber, 1981.

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Bacon, Francis. The Advancement of Learning. London: Oxford: Rob Youn and Ed Forrest, 1605, bk. 1, ch. 5, sect. 8.

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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. 8.

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Huxley, Aldous. Point Counter Point. Chatto & Windus/Doubleday Doran, 1928, ch. 1.

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Maistre, Joseph De. Lettres et Opuscules Inédits de Leibniz. Paris: Lagrange, 1854, letter 76. Originally a letter about Russia's new constitutional laws, 27 Aug. 1811.

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Keynes, John Maynard. The Economic Consequences of the Peace. Self-published, 1919, ch. 6.

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Keynes, John Maynard. "The Economic Consequences of the Peace." The Essential Keynes, edited by Robert Skidelsky. Penguin, 2016, ch. 6.

Beauty's but skin deep.

John Davies of Hereford

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Davies, John. A Select Second Husband for Sir Thomas Overburie's Wife. London: John Marriott, 1616, st. 13.

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Colton, Charles Caleb. Lacon: Or Many Things In Few Words Addressed To Those Who Think. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820.

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Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. London: James Dodsley, 1790.

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Burke, Edmund. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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Penn, William. Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims. London: Thomas Northcott, 1693, pt. 1, no. 142.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 5, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 2.