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The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

Nancy Mitford

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Mitford, Nancy. The Pursuit of Love. Hamish Hamilton, 1945, ch. 1.

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Maine, Henry. Ancient Law. London: John Murray, 1861, ch. 5.

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Robinson, Joan. "Metaphysics, Morals and Science." Economic Philosophy. C. A. Watts and Co., 1962.

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Macmillan, Harold. Speech in England. 20 July 1957, Bedford, England, UK.

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Keynes, John Maynard. The End Of Laissez-faire. Hogarth Press, 1926, ch. 4.

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Keynes, John Maynard. "The End of Laissaz-faire." The Essential Keynes. Penguin, edited by Robert Skidelsky, 2016, ch. 4.

At present an iron curtain of silence has descended, cutting off the Russian zone from the Western Allies.

T. St. Vincent Troubridge

A Curtain Across Europe

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Troubridge, Thomas. "A Curtain Across Europe." Empire News, 21 Oct. 1945.

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.

David Lodge

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Lodge, David. The British Museum is Falling Down. MacGibbon & Kee, 1965, ch. 4.

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Eddington, Arthur. "The Nature Of The Physical World." Gifford lecture. January – March 1927, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Hardy, G. H. A Mathematician's Apology. Cambridge University Press, 1940.

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Strachey, Lytton. Eminent Vicorians. Chatto & Windus, 1918, preface.

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Strachey, Lytton. Eminent Vicorians. Penguin Classics, 1990, preface.

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Shakespeare, William. Troilus and Cressida. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1603, The Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Troilus and Cressida." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 2.

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Newton, Isaac. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy], vol. 1. London: Josephi Streater, 1687, preface.

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Newton, Isaac. The Principia, translated by Andrew Motte. Prometheus, 1995, the author's preface.

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 2, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 4.

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 4.

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 6.

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 6.

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 3, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 16.

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 16.

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Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice. c. 1598, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 3.

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

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843, stave 3.

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Dickens, Charles. "A Christmas Carol." A Christmas Carol and Other Writings, edited by Michael Slater. Penguin, 2003, stave 3.

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Shakespeare, William. Richard II. 9 Dec. 1595, The house of Edward Hoby, Westminster, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 3.

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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 2, sc. 3.

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 1, ch. 8.