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Wordsworth, William. "Ode." Poems, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. st. 1.

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Wordsworth, William. "Ode ('There was a time')." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008, st. 1.

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Pope, Alexander. Letter to Edward Blount. 10 Feb. 1715-1716.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Epistle to Allen Lord Bathurst." Alexander Pope: The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 153-154.

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Chesterton, G.K. "On Running After One's Hat." In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton. Ignatius Press, 2011. Originally published by Methuen & Company, 1908.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." London: J. Wilford, 1733, ep. 2, l. 1-18.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, ep. 2, l. 1-18.

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Muir, John. Journal entry. July 1890.

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Defoe, Daniel. "Of Academies: An Academy for Women." An Essay Upon Projects. London: Tho. Cockerill, 1697.

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Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that Which is to Come. London: Nathaniel Ponder, 1678, pt. 1.

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Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim's Progress, edited by Roger Pooley. Penguin Classics, 2009, pt. 1.

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Bentham, Jeremy. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. London: T. Payne and Son, 1789, ch. 17.

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Bentham, Jeremy. Utilitarianism and Other Essays. Penguin UK, 2004.

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Greene, Graham. Ways of Escape. The Bodley Head, 1980, ch. 8, sec. 3.

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Hardy, Thomas. "The Man He Killed." Harper's Weekly, 8 Nov. 1902.

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Hardy, Thomas. "The Man He Killed." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 1998.

Complete moral tolerance is possible only when men have become completely indifferent to each other-that is to say, when society is at an end.

James Fitzjames Stephen

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

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Stephen, James Fitzjames. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. London: Smith, Elder, & Company, 1873, ch. 4.

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Stephen, James Fitzjames. Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, edited by Julia Stapleton. Oxford University Press, 2018, ch. 4.

Ill news hath wings, and with the wind doth go,
Comfort's a cripple and comes ever slow.

Michael Drayton

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Drayton, Michael. "The Barons' Wars." The Barons' Wars, Nymphidia, and Other Poems. London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1887.

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Russell, Bertrand. Marriage and Morals. Allen & Unwin, 1929, ch. 16.

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Chesterton, G.K. "Anti-Religious Thought in the Eighteenth Century." An Outline of Christianity; The Story of Our Civilization. Vol. 4. Christianity and Modern Thought. The Waverley Book Co., 1926, pt. 3.

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Lord Salisbury. Renfrew by-election speech. Oct. 1877, UK.

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Defoe, Daniel. The True-Born Englishman: A Satyr. 1701, pt. 1, I. 1.

But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise,
Kings would not play at.

William Cowper

The Winter Morning Walk

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Cowper, William. The Task. London: Joseph Johnson, 1785, bk. 5.

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Cowper, William. "The Task." William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems, edited by James Sambrook. Routledge, 2016, bk. 5.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Moral and Religious Aphorisms." Aids to Reflection. London: Taylor and Hessey, 1825, aphorism 25.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Moral and Religious Aphorisms." The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, vol. 9: Aids to Reflection, edited by Kathleen Coburn and Bart Winer. Princeton University Press, 2017.

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to Arthur Charles Stanhope. 12 Oct. 1765. 

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Clare, John. The Present is the Funeral of the Past. c. 1845, I. 1.

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Clare, John. "The Present is the Funeral of the Past." The Later Poems of John Clare. Oxford University Press, 1984, I. 1.