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If you want something done right, do it yourself.

Charles-Guillaume Etienne

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Étienne, Charles-Guillaume. Bruïs et Palaprat. 1807, Théâtre-Français, Paris, France, sc. 3.

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Keynes, John Maynard. The Economic Consequences of the Peace. Self-published, 1919, ch. 1.

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Keynes, John Maynard. "The Economic Consequences of the Peace." The Essential Keynes. Penguin, edited by Robert Skidelsky, 2016, ch. 1.

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Winterson, Jeanette. Quoted in "Ten Rules for Writing Fiction: Part 2." Guardian, 19 Feb. 2010, www.theguardian.com/books/2010/feb/20/10-rules-for-writing-fiction-part-two.

I believe that humor is a part of beauty.

Max Beckmann

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Beckmann, Max. "August 23, 1903." Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950, edited by Barbara Copeland Buenger, University of Chicago Press, 1997, p. 27.

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Graves, Robert. Good-Bye to All That. Jonathan Cape, 1929.

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Pope, Alexander, [published anonymously]. "An Essay on Criticism." London: W. Lewis, 1711, pt. 2, l. 335.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Criticism." Alexander Pope: The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 2, l. 335.

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Saki. "Reginald on Besetting Sins." Westminster Gazette, Sept. 1904.

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Saki. "Reginald on Besetting Sins." Selected Stories of Saki. Everyman's Library, 2017.

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Wordsworth, William. "The Tables turned; an Evening Scene, on the same subject." Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London: J. & A. Arch, 1798, I. 26.

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Wordsworth, William. "The Tables Turned." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008, I. 26.

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Congreve, William. Love for Love. 30 Apr. 1695, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 3.

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Congreve, William. "Love for Love." The Way of the World and Other Plays, edited by Eric S. Rump. Penguin Classics, 2006, act 3, sc. 3.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Maxime Du Camp. 26 June 1852.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Letters of Gustave Flaubert, edited by Richard Rumbold, translated by J. M. Cohen. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1950.

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Jonson, Ben. "Praecept[a] Elementa[aria]." Timber, or Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter. London, 1641.

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Shakespeare, William. Henry VI, Part 1. Lord Strange's Men, 1592, Rose Theatre, London, England, UK, act 5, sc. 3.

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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 5, sc. 3.

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Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present. London: Chapman and Hall, 1843, bk. 3, ch. 4.

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Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present, edited by David R. Sorensen and Brent E. Kinser. Oxford University Press, 2023, bk. 3, ch. 4.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 19 Sept. 1777.

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

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Donne, John. "To His Mistress Going to Bed." The Harmony of the Muses. London: William Gilbertson, 1654, I. 33.

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Donne, John. "Elegy: To His Mistress Going to Bed." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2007, I. 33.

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Hardy, Thomas. The Dynasts. Vol. 1, MacMillan & Co., 1904, pt. 1, act 1, sc. 5.

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Amis, Kingsley. "A Bookshop Idyll." A Case of Samples: Poems 1946–1956. Gollancz, 1956.

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Arnold, Matthew. "Hebraism and Hellenism." Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1869. Originally published in Cornhill Magazine, 1867–68.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. In Memoriam A.H.H. London: Edward Moxon, 1850, pt. 96, st. 3.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "In Memoriam A.H.H." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 96, st. 3.

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Chekhov, Anton. Вишнёвый сад [The Cherry Orchard]. Directed by Konstantin Stanislavski. 17 Jan. 1904, Moscow Art Theatre, Moscow, Russia, act. 1.

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Chekhov, Anton. "The Cherry Orchard." Plays: Ivanov; The Seagull' Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard, translated by Peter Carson. Penguin Classics, 2002, act 1.