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Fry, Christopher. Time Magazine. 3 Apr. 1950.

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Whitehead, Alfred North. Adventures of Ideas. The Macmillan Company/Simon and Schuster, 1933, ch. 19, sec. 1.

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More, Hannah. Christian Morals. Vol. 2, London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.

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Bradley, F. H. Appearance and Reality. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1893, preface.

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Bradley, F. H. Appearance and Reality. Routledge, 2010, preface.

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Sydenham, Thomas. Observationes Medicae. London, 1676.

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Pater, Walter. "Pico Della Mirandola." Studies in the History of the Renaissance. London: Macmillan and Co., 1873.

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Pater, Walter. "Pico Della Mirandola." Studies in the History of the Renaissance. Oxford University Press, 2010.

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Shakespeare, William. The Comedy of Errors. 1594, Gray's Inn Hall, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Comedy of Errors." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 2.

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Fry, Elizabeth. Note found among her papers. c. 1848.

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Fry, Elizabeth. Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry, edited by Katharine Fry and Rachel Elizabeth Cresswell. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2011, ch. 10.

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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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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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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.