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Sidney, Philip. The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia. 1593, bk. 1.

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Sidney, Philip. The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. Much Ado About Nothing. London: Andrew Wise and William Aspley, 1600, act 3, sc. 3.

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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 3, sc. 3.

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Savile, George. "Of Punishment." A Character of King Charles The Second and Political, Moral and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections. London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750.

Every man paddle his own canoe.

Frederick Marryat

Settlers in Canada

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Marryat, Frederick. The Settlers in Canada. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844, ch. 8.

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Chesterton, G.K. "Novels on the Great War." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 35, Ignatius Press, 1986. Originally published by Illustrated London News, 19 Apr. 1930.

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Maugham, William Somerset. Of Human Bondage. George H. Doran Company, 1915, ch. 122.

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Maugham, William Somerset. Of Human Bondage. Signet, 2007, ch. 122.

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Mantel, Hilary. Bring Up the Bodies. Fourth Estate/Henry Holt and Co., 2012.

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Lord Byron. "Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa." Letters and Journals. London: J. Johnson, c. 1830.

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Lord Byron. "Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa." The Collected Poems of Lord Byron. Wordsworth, 1994.

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Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Quoted in Letter to the Earl of Harcourt. Written by Horace Walpole. 17 Sept. 1778.

It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Jeremy Bentham

A Fragment on Government

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Bentham, Jeremy. A Fragment on Government. London: T. Payne, P. Elmsly, and E. Brooke, 1776, preface.

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Bentham, Jeremy. "A Fragment on Government." A Comment on the Commentaries and A Fragment on Government, edited by J.H. Burns and H.L.A Hart. Clarendon Press, 2009, preface.

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Herbert, George. Jacula Prudentum, or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Microform. London: Humphrey Blunden, 1640.

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Herbert, George. "Outlandish Proverbs." Herbert: The Complete English Works, edited by Ann Pasternak Slater. Everyman's Library, 1995, no. 339.

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Ruskin, John. Modern Painters. Vol. 3, London: Smith, Elder & Company, 1856, pt. 4, ch. 3.

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Ruskin, John. Modern Painters 4. The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 6, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pt. 4, ch. 3.

I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.

David Attenborough

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Attenborough, David. Independent. 14 Jan. 1995.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "An Apology for Idlers." Cornhill Magazine, July 1877, vol. 36, pp. 80-86.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

Herbert Spencer

Progress: Its Law and Cause

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Spencer, Herbert. "Progress: Its Law and Cause." Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects. London and Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1861. Originally published in The Westminster Review, Apr. 1857.

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Young, Edward. The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality. London: R. Dodsley, 1742-1745, Night 4, I. 233.

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Young, Edward. Edward Young: Night Thoughts, edited by Stephen Cornford. Cambridge University Press, 2008, Night 4, I. 233.

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Penn, William. Frame of Government. 1682, preface.

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Lawrence, D.H. The White Peacock. Heinemann/Duffield & Co., 1911, pt. 2, ch. 2.

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Adams, Douglas. Mostly Harmless. William Heinemann/Harmony Books, 1992, ch. 1.

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Orwell, George. “Freedom of the Park.” Tribune, 7 Dec. 1945.

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Orwell, George. "Freedom of the Park." The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, vol. 4: In Front of Your Nose 1945-1950, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. David R. Godine, 1999, no. 11.