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Greene, Graham. The Ministry of Fear. William Heinemann, 1943, bk. 3, ch. 2.

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Rimbaud, Arthur. "Le Bateau Ivre [The Drunken Boat]." Les Poetes Maudits, edited by Paul Verlaine. Paris, 1884.

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Rimbaud, Arthur. "Le bateau ivre/The Drunken Boat." Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters, a Bilingual Edition, translated by Wallace Fowlie. University of Chicago Press, 2005.

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Meredith, George. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: A History of Father and Son. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859, ch. 1.

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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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Gauguin, Paul. "Un lettre de paul gauguin: a propos de sevres et du demier." Le Soir, 25 Apr. 1895.

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Gauguin, Paul. The Writings of a Savage, translated by Eleanor Levieux, edited by Daniel Guérin. Da Capo Press, 1996.

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Ibarruri, Dolores. Speech delivered at a mass meeting. 3 Sept. 1936, Winter Velodrome, Paris, France.

The chase, the sport of kings;
image of war, without its guilt.

William Somerville

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Somervile, William. The Chace. London: G. Hawkins/Dublin: R. Gunne and R. Owen, 1735.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Yeats, William Butler. "King and No King." The Green Helmet and Other Poems. The Cuala Press, 1910.

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Yeats, William Butler. "King and No King." Yeats's Poetry, Drama and Prose. W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.

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Burke, Edmund. Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. London: R and J. Dodsley, 1757, pt. 2, sect. 2.

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Burke, Edmund. "Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009, pt. 2, sect. 2.

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Jung, Carl. Gegenwart und Zukunft [The Undiscovered Self], translated by R. F. C. Hull. Routledge & Kegen Paul, 1958.

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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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Kipling, Rudyard. "If—". Rewards and Fairies. Macmillan and Co., 1910, st. 4.

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Kipling, Rudyard. "If—". Rudyard Kipling: Stories and Poems, edited by Daniel Karlin. Oxford University Press, 2015, st. 4.

Oh Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!

Jane Welsh Carlyle

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Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Letter to Eliza Stodart. 29 Feb. 1836.

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Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Jane Carlyle: Newly Selected Letters, edited by David R. Sorensen and Kenneth J. Fielding. Routledge, 2004, ch. 3.

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution [The Ancien Régime and the Revolution]. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1856, foreward.

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. The Ancien Regime and the Revolution, translated by Gerald Bevan. Penguin Classics, 2008, foreward.

We haven't found any smoking guns.

Hans Blix

Regarding inspections for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

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Blix, Hans. "Blix: No 'Smoking Guns' in Iraq." The Guardian, 9 Jan 2003. Originally a news conference. 9 Jan. 2003, United Nations Headquarters, New York City, NY, USA.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. Religio Medici. London, 1643, pt. 1, sec. 55.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Religio Medici (1643)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, pt. 1, sect. 55.

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Congreve, William. The Old Bachelor. United Company, 1693, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, England, UK, act 5, sc. 10.

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Congreve, William. "The Old Bachelor." The Way of the World and Other Plays, edited by Eric S. Rump. Penguin Classics, 2006, act 5, sc. 10.

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Shakespeare, William. "All's Well that Ends Well." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 1, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "All's Well That Ends Well." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 1.

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Bradstreet, Anne. Meditations Divine and Moral. c. 1664, st. 12.

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Bradstreet, Anne. "Meditations Divine and Moral." The Works of Anne Bradstreet. Harvard University Press, 1967, st. 12.