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Clarke, Arthur C. "Clarke's Third Law on UFOs." Science Magazine, 19 Jan. 1968.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. Religio Medici. London, 1643, pt. 2, sect. 4.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Religio Medici (1643)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, pt. 2, sect. 4.

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Chesterton, G.K. "What's Wrong with the World." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 4, Ignatius Press, 1987, pt. 1. Originally published by Cassell, 1910, pt. 1.

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Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journal Entry. 16 Aug. 1803.

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Wordsworth, Dorothy. "Journal entry 16 Aug. 1803." Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland. Yale University Press, 1997.

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Burns, Robert. "Epistle to James Smith." Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Kilmarnock: John Wilson, 1786, st. 16.

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Burns, Robert. "To James Smith." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994, I. 16.

If thou wilt ease thine heart
Of lover and all its smart
Then sleep, dear, sleep.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

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Beddoes, Thomas Lovell. Death's Jest-book; Or, The Fool's Tragedy. London: William Pickering, 1850.

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Beddoes, Thomas Lovell. Death's Jest Book. Routledge, 2020.

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Watts, Alan. Become What You Are. Shambhala, 1995.

I would be married, but I'de have no Wife,
I would be married to a single Life.

Richard Crashaw

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Crashaw, Richard. "On Marriage." Steps to the Temple. Humphrey Moseley, 1646, I. 1.

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Donne, John. "Meditation XVII." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes. London, 1624.

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Donne, John. "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel. Vintage, 1999, meditation 17.

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Kilvert, Francis. Diary entry. 29 May 1871.

Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

Terry Pratchett

Moving Pictures

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Pratchett, Terry. Moving Pictures. Victor Gollancz, 1990.

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "Lord Bacon." Edinburgh Review, July 1837.

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Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Grant Richards, 1903, ch. 6.

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Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Everyman's Library, 1993, ch. 6.

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to his son. 1 July 1748.

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Thompson, Francis. "Daisy." Poems. London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893, st. 15.

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Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journal Entry. 15 Apr. 1802.

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Wordsworth, Dorothy. "The Grasmere Journal, Journal entry 15 April 1802." The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals, edited by Pamela Woof. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Lewis, C.S. "16 March 1955." Letters of C.S. Lewis, edited by W.H. Lewis. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1966. Originally from Letter to Mrs. Johnson, 16 Mar. 1955.

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Congreve, William. Love for Love. 30 Apr. 1695, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 21.

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Congreve, William. "Love for Love." The Way of the World and Other Plays, edited by Eric S. Rump. Penguin Classics, 2006, act 4, sc. 21.

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Muir, John. Journal entry. 1869.

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Muir, John. "My First Summer in the Sierra." John Muir: Nature Writings. Library of America, 1997, ch. 10.

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Sterne, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Vol. 2, London: Ann Ward, 1760, ch. 19.

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Sterne, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, edited by Ian Campbell Ross. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 19.