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Nin, Anaïs. "November, 1934." The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. 1, 1931-1934, edited by Gunther Stuhlmann. Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch, 1966.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Soul of Man Under Socialism." Fortnightly Review. London: Chapman and Hall, Feb. 1891.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Soul of Man Under Socialism." The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose, edited by Linda Dowling. Penguin Classics, 2001.

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Wells, H. G. "Lord of the Dynamos." Pall Mall Budget, 6 Sept. 1894.

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Wells, H. G. "Lord of the Dynamos." Selected Stories of H. G. Wells, edited by Ursula K. Le Guin. Modern Library, 2004.

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Wilde, Oscar. "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime." Lord Arthur Savile's Crime: The Portrait of Mr. W.H. and Other Stories. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1891.

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Wilde, Oscar. "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Lothair

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Disraeli, Benjamin. Lothair. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1870, ch. 79.

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Paine, Thomas. Rights of man. Part the second. London: J. S. Jordan, 1792.

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Paine, Thomas. "Rights of Man Part the second." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Proust, Marcel. Albertine disparue [Albertine Gone]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

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Proust, Marcel. The Fugitive, edited and translated by Peter Collier. Penguin Classics, 2021.

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Pliny the Elder. Historia Naturalis [Natural History]. 77 AD, dedication.

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Pliny the Elder. Natural History: A Selection, translated by John F. Healy. Penguin Classics, 1991, preface.

If anyone wishes to observe the works of nature, he should put his trust not in books of anatomy but in his own eyes.

Galen

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Galen. De Usu Partium Corporis Humani [On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body]. c. 175.

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Galen. On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body, translated by Margaret Tallmadge May. Vol. 1, Cornell University Press, 1968, p. 119.

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Defoe, Daniel. The Complete English Tradesman. London: 1726.

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Delacroix, Eugène. Journal entry. 14 March 1858.

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Delacroix, Eugène. The Journal of Eugène Delacroix: A Selection, translated by Lucy Norton, edited by Hubert Wellington. Phaidon, 1995.

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Gilbert, William Schwenck. The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty. Composed by Arthur Sullivan. 31 Dec. 1879, Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York City, NY, USA. act. 1.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Jules Verne

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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Verne, Jules. "Vingt mille lieues sous les mers [Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas]." Magasin d'éducation et de récréation, Mar. 1869 - Jun. 1870. Serial.

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Verne, Jules. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, edited and translated by David Coward. Penguin Classics, 2017.

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D'Orleans, Charles. Le temps a laissie son manteaux [Winter has cast his cloak away]. c. 1440.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Study in Scarlet." Beeton's Christmas Annual. London: Ward Lock & Co., 1887.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2012, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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Herodotus. Ἱστορίαι [Histories]. c. 430 BC, bk. 2, ch. 173.

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Herodotus. The Histories, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 2, ch. 173.

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Gorbachev, Mikhail. "The Rule of Law: Our New Frontier." 5 Sept. 1990, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA. Speech.

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Bede. Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum [Ecclesiastical History of the English People]. c. 731, preface.

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Bede. "Ecclesiastical History of the English People." The Ecclesiastical History of the English People; The Greater Chronicle; Bede's Letter to Egbert, edited by Judith McClure and Roger Collins. Oxford University Press, 2009, preface.

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Berkeley, George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. Dublin: Jeremy Pepat, 1710, sect. 4.

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Berkeley, George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, edited by Kenneth P. Winkler. Hackett Publishing Company, 1982, sect. 4.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of this world justifies.

Rudyard Kipling

The Phantom Rickshaw

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Kipling, Rudyard. "The Phantom 'Rickshaw." The Phantom 'Rickshaw & other Eerie Tales. Prayagraj: A. H. Wheeler & Co., 1888.

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Kipling, Rudyard. "The Phantom 'Rickshaw." The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories. Dover Publications, 2013.