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Swift, Jonathan. The Conduct of the Allies and of the Late Ministry in Beginning and Carrying on the Present War. London: John Morphew, 1711.

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Swift, Jonathan. "The Conduct of the Allies and of the Late Ministry in Beginning and Carrying on the Present War." Jonathan Swift: Major Works, edited by Angus Ross and David Woolley. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Seneca the Younger. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium [Moral Letters to Lucilius]. c. 65 AD.

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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Letters on Ethics, translated by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long. University of Chicago Press, 2017.

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Keats, John. Letter to Benjamin Bailey. 22 Nov. 1817.

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Keats, John. "Benjamin Bailey 22 November 1817." John Keats: Selected Letters, edited by John Barnard. Penguin Classics, 2015.

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "Southey's Colloquies." Edinburgh Review, Jan. 1830.

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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. 2, ch. 7.

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Shaw, George Bernard. Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant. 1898, vol. 2, preface.

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Shaw, George Bernard. Plays Pleasant. Penguin, 2003, preface.

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Foucault, Michel. Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison [Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison]. Gallimard, 1975.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

Émile Zola

The Ladies' Paradise

Originally from Emile Zola's book, but quoted in letter from Van Gogh.

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Zola, Émile. "Au Bonheur de Dames [The Ladies' Paradise]." Gil Blas, 17 Dec. 1882 - 1 Mar. 1883.

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Zola, Émile. The Ladies' Paradise. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Behn, Aphra. La Montre, or The Lover's Watch. London: W. Canning, 1686.

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Behn, Aphra. "La Montre, or The Lover's Watch." The Works of Aphra Behn: Seneca Unmask'd and Other Prose Translated. Vol. 4, Routledge, 2018.

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Swift, Jonathan. "Thoughts on Various Subjects." Miscellanies. London: John Morphew, 1727.

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Swift, Jonathan. "Thoughts on Various Subjects (1711)." Jonathan Swift: The Essential Writings, edited by Claude Rawson and Ian Higgins. W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.

Generosity truly is the best investment.

Diane von Furstenberg

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Von Furstenberg, Diane. "Diane von Furstenberg Talks 6th Annual DVF Awards." Good Morning America, 9 Mar. 2015.

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Smith, Zadie. "Zadie Smith: By the Book." The New York Times, 20 Nov. 2016.

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The Holy Bible, New International Version. International Bible Society, 1978. (1st Corinthians 13:13).

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Shakespeare, William. Much Ado About Nothing. London: Andrew Wise and William Aspley, 1600, act 5, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Much Ado About Nothing." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 1.

Truly, I think I should go mad if it weren't for music.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Illyich. Letter to Nadezhda von Meck. c. 23 Nov. 1877.

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Shakespeare, William. Henry IV, Part 1. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1597, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The First Part of Henry the Fourth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, 2015, act 4, sc. 1.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Philadelphia, July 1890, ch. 1.

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Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 1.

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Mussolini, Benito. "Mussolini Says Fascism Will Live After He Is Done." Interviewed by Edwin L. James. New York Times, 15 Apr. 1928.

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Plutarch. "Aemilius Paulus." Βίοι Παράλληλοι [Parallel Lives]. c. 2nd century.

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Plutarch. "Aemilius." Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Roman Lives, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Paine, Thomas. The American Crisis: Number 1. Philadelphia: Styner and Cist, 1776.

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Paine, Thomas. "The American Crisis, Number I, December 19, 1776." Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution. Library of America, 2015.