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Arnold, Matthew. Quoted in Collections and Recollections, written by G. W. E. Russell. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898, ch. 14. Originally stated to Russell by Arnold c. 1890.

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Raleigh, Walter. The Historie of the VVorld / In Five Bookes. London: Ben Jonson, 1614, bk. 5, ch. 6.

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Cowper, William. "Retirement." Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. London: J. Johnson, 1782.

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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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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem; With Notes. London, 1813, pt. 3.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Queen Mab." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 3.

It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.

Roald Dahl

The Witches

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Dahl, Roald. The Witches. Jonathan Cape, 1983.

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Peacham, Henry. The Compleat Gentleman. London: Francis Constable, 1622.

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

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

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Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi. Il Gattopard [The Leopard]. Feltrinelli, 1958, ch. 1.

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Lampedusa, Giuseppe. The Leopard, translated by Archibald Colquhoun. Pantheon, 2007, ch. 1.

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

Georges Clemenceau

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Clemenceau, Georges. "Discours de Paix [Speech on Peace]." 20 July 1919, Verdun, France.

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Frankl, Victor. …trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager [Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy]. Verlag für Jugend und Volk, 1946.

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Frankl, Victor. Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, 2006.

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Duchamp, Marcel. Audio Arts. 1974. Originally a recorded interview by George Heard Hamilton, Richard Hamilton, and Charles Mitchell, London, 1959.

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Colman, George. The Heir at Law. 15 July 1797, Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 2.

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Colman, George. "The Heir at Law." The Plays of George Colman the Younger, edited by Peter Tasch. Vol. 2, Routledge, 2023, act 1, sc. 2.

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Huxley, Aldous. "Variations on a Philosopher." Themes and Variations. Chatto & Windus/Harper & Brothers, 1950.

The God of nature never intended that Ireland should be a province, and by God she never will.

Thomas Goold

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Goold, Thomas. An Address to the People of Ireland on the Subject of the Projected Union. Dublin: J. Moore, 1799.

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Hazlitt, William. "The Times Newspaper." Political Essays. London: William Hone, 1819.

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Hazlitt, William. "The Times Newspaper." The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt, edited by Duncan Wu. Vol. 4, Routledge, 2020.

The summer hath his joys,
And winter has delights;
Though love and all his pleasures are but toys,
They shorten tedious nights.

Thomas Campion

Third Book of Ayres

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Campion, Thomas. The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres. London, 1617, bk. 3.

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Hitchens, Christopher: "Ireland: 'We Ourselves': Suffering, Faith and Redemption." Critical Quarterly, Spring 1998.

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Hitchens, Christopher. "Ireland." Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere. Verso, 2000, pt. 1.

Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.

Iain Duncan Smith

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Smith, Iain Duncan. Speech to the Conservative Party Conference. The 2002 Conservative Party Conference. 10 Oct. 2002, Bournemouh, England, UK.

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Frankl, Victor. …trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager [Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy]. Verlag für Jugend und Volk, 1946.

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Frankl, Victor. Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, 2006.