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Russell, Bertrand. The Conquest of Happiness. Liveright, 1930, ch. 9.

We'll meet again,
Don't know where, don't know when,
But I know we'll meet again some sunny day.

Vera Lynn

We'll Meet Again

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Parker, Ross and Hughie Charles. We'll Meet Again. Performed by Vera Lynn. Michael Ross Limited, 1939.

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Russell, Bertrand. "The Study of Mathematics." The New Quarterly, Nov. 1907.

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Russell, Bertrand. The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, edited by Robert E. Egner and Lester E. Denonn. Routledge, 2009, ch. 31.

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Thomson, James. "The City of Dreadful Night." The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems. London: Reeves and Turner, 1880, st. 14. Originally published in the National Reformer, 1874.

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

Winifred Holtby

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Holtby, Winifred. Quoted in Testament of Friendship: The Story of Winifred Holtby, written by Vera Brittain. Macmillan & Co., 1940.

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Camus, Albert. La Chute [The Fall]. Editions Gallimard, 1956.

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Disraeli, Benjamin. Sybil; or, The Two Nations. Vol. 1, London: Henry Colburn, 1845, bk. 2, ch. 5.

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Disraeli, Benjamin. Sybil, edited by Sheila Smith. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2, ch. 5.

Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.

Elizabeth David

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David, Elizabeth. French Country Cooking. John Lehmann, 1951, introduction.

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Kundera, Milan. Le Livre du rire et de l'oubli [The Book of Laughter and Forgetting]. Gallimard, 1979.

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Kundera, Milan. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, translated by Aaron Asher. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999.

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Wells, H. G. The Outline of History. George Newnes, 1920.

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Gray, Thomas. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College. London: R. Dodsley, 1747.

A man is literally what he thinks.

James Allen

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Allen, James. As a Man Thinketh. 1903.

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Allen, James. As a Man Thinketh: The Complete Original Edition. St. Martin's Essential, 2019.

The great design of art is to restore the decays that happened to human nature by the fall, by restoring order.

John Dennis

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Dennis, John. The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry. London: Geo. Strahan and Bernard Lintott, 1704, ch. 2.

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Wotton, Henry. Album of Christopher Fleckamore. c. 1604.

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Clare, John. Child Harold. c. 1840, I. 215.

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Clare, John. "Child Harold." John Clare: Major Works, edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell. Oxford University Press, 2008, I. 215.

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Gide, Andre. Les Faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters]. Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1925, pt. 1, ch. 8.

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Gide, Andre. The Counterfeiters, translated by Dorothy Bussy. Penguin Books, 1990, pt. 1, ch. 8.

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Fox, George. Journal entry. c. 1647.

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Berkeley, George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. Dublin: Jeremy Pepat, 1710, sect. 6.

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Berkeley, George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, edited by Kenneth P. Winkler. Hackett Publishing Company, 1982, sect. 6.

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Bernard Shaw's Appreciation of Coburn." Camera Work, edited and published by Alfred Stieglitz, 1906, no. 15, p. 33.

We blossom and flourish as leaves on the tree,
To wither and perish- but nought changeth Thee.

Walter Chalmers Smith

God, All in All

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Smith, Walter Chalmers. "Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise." Hymns of Christ and the Christian Life. London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1867.