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More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

R. S. Surtees

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Surtees, Robert Smith. The Analysis of the Hunting Field. London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1846, ch. 1.

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Olivier, Laurence. Interviewed by Kenneth Harris. BBC, c. 1966.

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Arnold, Matthew. "Sweetness and Light." 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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Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy. Oxford: Henry Cripps, 1621, pt. 1.

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Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy, edited by Holbrook Jackson. New York Review Books, 2001, pt. 1.

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Arendt, Hannah. The Life of the Mind. Vol. 1. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977, ch. 18.

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Gibbon, Edward. "Memoirs of My Life and Writings." Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, edited by John Sheffield. Vol. 1, London: A Strahan and T. Cadell Jun. and W. David, 1796.

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Gibbon, Edward. Memoirs of My Life, edited by Betty Radice. Penguin, 1984.

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Bacon, Francis "Of Travel." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

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Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Travel." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Lord Bolingbrooke. Quoted in Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, written by Joseph Spence, edited by Samuel Weller Singer. W. H. Carpenter, 1820.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, written by James Boswell. Vol. 1, London: Charles Dilly, 1791, "1766," aetat. 57.

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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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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to his son. 9 Oct. 1746.

Pray without ceasing.

Apostle Paul

1st Thessalonians 5:17

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (1st Thessalonians 5:17).

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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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Campbell, Thomas. "Pleasures of Hope, Part II." The Pleasures of Hope; With Other Poems. Edinburgh: Jones Bull, c. 1800.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." London: J. Wilford, 1733, ep.1, I. 125-126.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, ep. 1, l. 125-126.

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Cowley, Abraham. "To Dr Scarborough." Poems written by A. Cowley. London: Humphrey Moseley, 1656, st. 6.

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Bacon, Francis. "Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

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Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

John Ruskin

The Eagle's Nest

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Ruskin, John. Lecture given at the University of Oxford. 22 Feb. 1872, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.

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Schumpeter, Joseph Alois. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. Harper & Brothers, 1942, pt. 2, ch. 7.

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France, Anatole. La Vie en Fleur [The Bloom of Life]. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1923, epilogue.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. Christian Morals. Cambridge: University Press, 1716, pt. 1, sect. 34.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Christian Morals (1716)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, pt. 1, sec. 34.