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Chesterton, G.K. "The English Graves." The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Verses. Cecil Palmer, 1922, I. 18.

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Lewis, C. S. "Answers to Questions on Christianity." God in the Dock. Eerdmans, 1970, pt. 1, ch. 4, q. 1. Originally presented as the speech, "One Man Brains Trust" 18 Apr. 1944, Head Office of Electric and Musical Industries Ltd., Hayes, England, UK, q. 1.

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Dryden, John. Absalom and Achitophel. London: Jacob Tonson, 1681, pt. 1, I. 781.

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Dryden, John. "Absalom and Achitophel." John Dryden Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2002, pt. 1, I. 781.

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Lawrence, D.H. Women in Love. Thomas Seltzer, 1920, ch. 11.

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Jonson, Ben. Volpone. King's Men. Spring 1606, Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3.

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Jonson, Ben. "Volpone." Ben Jonson: Five Plays, edited by G. A. Wilkes. Oxford University Press, 2009, act 3.

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Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, 1908, ch. 1.

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Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Barnes & Noble, 2013, ch. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. Henry IV, Part 1. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1597, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 3.

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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 1, sc. 3.

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Smith, Adam. "The History of Astronomy." Essays on Philosophical Subjects. London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies/Edinburgh: W. Creech, 1795, sect. 3, para. 3.

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Smith, Adam. "The History of Astronomy." Essays on Philosophical Subjects, edited by W. P. D. Wightman. Liberty Fund, 1982, sect. 3, para. 3.

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Tennyson, Alfred. "Ulysses." Poems. Vol. 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1842, I. 74.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "Ulysses." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 74.

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Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Law of England: Book the First. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1765, introduction, sec. 3.

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Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book I Of the Rights of Persons, edited by David Lemmings. Oxford University Press, 2016, introduction, sec. 3.

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Herrick, Robert. "To Daffodils." Hesperides. London: John Williams, 1648.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Angela Carter

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Carter, Angela. Wise Children. Chatto & Windus, 1991, ch. 5.

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Carter, Angela. Wise Children. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, ch. 5.

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Hazlitt, William. "On Wit and Humour." Lectures on the English Comic Writers. c. 1818, Surrey Institution, London, England, UK.

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Lessing, Doris. The Golden Notebook. Michael Joseph, 1962.

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Donne, John. "Elegy IX: The Autumnal." Elegies, edited by E. K. Chambers. Lawrence & Bullen, 1896, I. 1.

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Donne, John. "Elegy: The Autumnal." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2007, I. 1.

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Aurora Leigh. London: Chapman & Hall, 1857, bk. 6.

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Aurora Leigh. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 6.

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

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

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.

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.