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Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha: Eine Indische Dichtung [Siddhartha: An Indian Poetry]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1922.

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Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Penguin Classics, 2002.

Germany above all.

August Heinrich Hoffman [von Fallersleben]

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Hoffmann, August Heinrich. "Das Lied der Deutschen [The Song of the Germans]." Composed by Joseph Haydn. 1841.

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Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 3, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1781, ch. 49.

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Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 3. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 49.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Philippians 2:12).

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Sallust. Bellum Catilinae [War of Catiline]. c. 43–40 BC.

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Sallust. "The War with Catiline." The War with Catiline and The War with Jugurtha, translated by John T. Ramsey J. C. Rolfe. Harvard University Press, 2013.

For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.

Isaac Watts

Against Idleness and Mischief

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Watts, Isaac. "Against Idleness and Mischief." Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children. London: M. Lawrence, 1715, I. 11.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Tempest." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 2, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Tempest." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 1.

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Russell, Bertrand. "On the Value of Skepticism." Sceptical Essays. George Allen and Unwin Ltd./W. W. Norton & Company, 1928.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Franz Kappus. 14 May 1904.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters to a Young Poet, translated by Charlie Louth. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Wollstonecraft, Mary. Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. London: Joseph Johnson, 1796, letter 19.

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Wollstonecraft, Mary. Letters written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, edited by Tone Brekke and Jon Mee. Oxford University Press, 2009, letter 19.

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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The School for Scandal. Performed by John Palmer, Frances Abington, William 'Gentleman' Smith, and Jane Pope. 1777, Drury Lane Theatre, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 1.

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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The School for Scandal. Dover Publications, 1991, act 4, sc. 1.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

Douglas Jerrold

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Jerrold, Douglas. The Story of a Feather. London: Punch Office, 1844, ch. 28.

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Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869, ch. 1.

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Mill, John Stuart. "The Subjection of Women." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 1.

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Keynes, John Maynard. The End of Laissez-Faire. Hogarth Press, 1926, ch. 1.

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Keynes, John Maynard. "The End of Laissaz-faire." The Essential Keynes. Penguin, edited by Robert Skidelsky, 2016, ch. 1.

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Johnson, Samuel. The Rambler. London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 12 Mar. 1751.

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. "On Medical Education." 1870, University College London, London, England, UK.

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. "On Medical Education." Collected Essays. Vol. 3, Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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Savile, George. "Miscellaneous: Lying." A Character of King Charles The Second and Political, Moral and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections. London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750.

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Hawking, Steven. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. Bantam Dell Publishing Group, 1988, conclusion.

Writing saved my life.

Slavoj Zizek

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Žižek, Slavoj. "This Much I Know." Guardian, 10 Dec. 2016, www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/dec/10/slavoj-zizek-we-are-all-basically-evil-egotistical-disgusting.

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Helvétius, Claude-Adrien. De l'esprit [On the Mind]. Paris: Durand, 1758, essay 3, ch. 30.