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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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Major, John. Interview. The Mail, 21 Feb. 1993.

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Drake, Judith [published as written by a lady]. An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex. London: A. Roper and E. Wilkinson, 1696.

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Shakespeare, William. Richard II. 9 Dec. 1595, The house of Edward Hoby, Westminster, London, England, UK, act 5, sc. 5.

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Shakespeare, William. "Richard the Second." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 5.

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Powell, Enoch. Speech at the Conservative Party Conference. 19 Oct. 1967, UK.

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Larkin, Philip. "Days." The Whitsun Weddings. Faber and Faber, 1964, I. 1.

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Connolly, Cyril. Enemies of Promise. George Routledge & Sons, 1938, ch. 14.

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Johnson, Samuel. "Butler." Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. London: C. Bathurst, et al., 1781.

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Shakespeare, William. Othello. King's Men, 1 Nov. 1604, Palace of Whitehall, Westminster, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Othello." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 1.

How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world! and how much the best!

Charles James Fox

On the fall of the Bastille.

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Fox, Charles James. Letter to Richard Fitzpatrick. 30 July 1789.

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Parkinson, C. Northcote. Parkinson's Law: The Pursuit of Progress. John Murray, 1958, ch. 10. Originally published as "Pension Point" in The Economist, c. 1958.

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Keynes, John Maynard. The End Of Laissez-faire. Hogarth Press, 1926, pt. 3.

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Keynes, John Maynard. "The End of Laissaz-faire." The Essential Keynes. Penguin, edited by Robert Skidelsky, 2016, ch. 3.

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Arnold, Matthew. "Equality." Mixed Essays. London: Smith, Elder & Co./New York: Macmillan and Co., 1879.

Have regrets. They are fuel.

Geoff Dyer

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Dyer, Geoff. Quoted in "Ten Rules for Writing Fiction: Part 1." Guardian, 19 Feb. 2010, www.theguardian.com/books/2010/feb/20/ten-rules-for-writing-fiction-part-one.

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Hazlitt, William. "On Reading New Books." Monthly Magazine, July 1827.

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Hazlitt, William. "On Reading New Books." The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt. Vol. 9, Routledge, 2020.

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Barrie, James M. Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. Performed by Gerald du Maurier, Nina Boucicault, Joan Burnett, Christine Silver, A.W. Baskcomb, and Alice DuBarry. 27 Dec. 1904, Duke of York's Theatre, Westminster, London, England, UK, act 1.

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Barrie, James M. Peter Pan. Reader's Library Classics, 2022, ch. 3.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "On Dreams." The Collected Works of Sir Thomas Browne. Norwich: Fletcher and Son, c. 1835.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "On Dreams." Sir Thomas Browne: The Major Works, edited by C. A. Patrides. Penguin Classics, 1977.

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Parkinson, C. Northcote. The Law and the Profits. Houghton Mifflin, 1960, ch. 1.

That action is best, which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

Francis Hutcheson

An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue

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Hutcheson, Francis. An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue. London: J. Darby, 1726, treatise 2, sect. 3, subsect. 8.

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Hutcheson, Francis. An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, edited by Wolfgang Leidhold. Liberty Fund, 2008.