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Smith, Sydney. Quoted in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith, by Saba Holland. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855, ch. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. King Lear. King's Men, 26 Dec. 1606, Palace of Whitehall, Westminster, England, UK, act 4, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Tragedy of King Lear." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 1.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

Richard Milward

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Selden, John. Table-talk, being discourses of John Seldon, Esq. London: Alex Murray and Sons, 1689.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. Religio Medici. London, 1643, pt. 1, sec. 25.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Religio Medici (1643)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, pt. 1, sec. 25.

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Nelson, Horatio. Letter to the Earl of Camden, the Secretary of War. c. 1804.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

Alexander Smith

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Smith, Alexander. "Of Death and the Fear of Dying." Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country. London: Strahan & Co., 1863.

One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.

Thomas Osbert Mordaunt

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Mordaunt, Thomas Osbert. "A Poem, said to be written by Major Mordaunt during the last German War. Never before published." The Bee, 12 Oct. 1791.

For when this song is sung and past,
My lute, be still, for I have done.

Thomas Wyatt

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Wyatt, Thomas. "The Lute Awake, or The lover complaineth the unkindness of his love." Songes and Sonettes Written By the Ryght Honorable Lord Henry Howard, late Earle of Surrey, Thomas Wyatt the Elder and others. London: Richard Tottel, 1557.

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Wyatt, Thomas. "My Lute, Awake! or The Lover Complaineth the Unkindness of his Love." Tottel's Miscellany: Songs and Sonnets of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Others, edited by Amanda Holton and Tom MacFaul. Penguin Classics, 2012.

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Russell, Bertrand. "No Funk, No Frivolity, No Fanaticism." New York Times, 6 May 1951, sec. SM, p. 4.

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Russell, Bertrand. The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell. Vol. 26. Routledge, 2020, pt. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night, Or What You Will. 1602, Middle Temple Hall, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 3.

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

I was told that desire for learning in women was against the will of God.

Mary Butts

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Butts, Mary. The Crystal Cabinet: My Childhood at Salterns. London: Metheun & Co., 1937.

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Brittain, Vera. The Rebel Passion. Fellowship Publications/Allen & Unwin, 1964.

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Nelson, Horatio. Quoted in The Life of Nelson, written by Robert Southey. Vol. 1, London: John Murray, 1813, ch. 3.

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Nelson, Horatio. Quoted in The Life of Nelson, written by Robert Southey. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2015, ch. 3.

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Ricardo, David. On Protection to Agriculture. London: John Murray, 1822.

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Chesterton, G.K. "Orthodoxy." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 1, Ignatius Press, 1986, ch. 4. Originally published by John Lane Co., 1908.

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Bacon, Francis. "Of Adversity." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

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Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Adversity." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Lines Written among the Euganean Hills." Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; With Other Poems. London: Charles and James Ollier, 1819, I. 115.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Lines Written among the Euganean Hills." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 115.

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Lord Byron. "She Walks in Beauty." Hebrew Melodies. London: John Murray, 1815, st. 1.

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Lord Byron. "She Walks in Beauty." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, st. 1.

I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will.

James I

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James I. Speech to Parliament. Dec. 1621, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

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Keynes, John Maynard. The Economic Consequences of the Peace. Self-published, 1919, ch. 6.

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Keynes, John Maynard. "The Economic Consequences of the Peace." The Essential Keynes, edited by Robert Skidelsky. Penguin, 2016, ch. 6.