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Colton, Charles Caleb. Lacon: Or Many Things In Few Words Addressed To Those Who Think. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820.

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Penn, William. Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims. London: Thomas Northcott, 1693, pt. 1, no. 142.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 5, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 2.

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Adams, Douglas. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. William Heinemann, 1988, ch. 13.

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "Von Ranke." Edinburgh Review, Oct. 1840.

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Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. London: John Danter, 1597, act 1, sc. 4.

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Shakespeare, William. "Romeo and Juliet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 4.

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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. 292.

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Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy. Oxford: Henry Cripps, 1621, pt. 1.

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Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy, edited by Holbrook Jackson. New York Review Books, 2001, pt. 1.

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Dahl, Roald. Matilda. Viking Kestrel, 1988.

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Herbert, George. "The Flower." The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. Cambridge: University of Cambridge, 1633, st. 1.

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Herbert, George. "The Flower." The Complete Poetry, edited by John Drury and Victoria Moul. Penguin Classics, 2015, st. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 3, sc. 4.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 4.

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Cook, James. Diary entry. 30 Jan. 1774.

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Cook, James. The Journals of Captain Cook. Penguin Classics, 2000.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 31 Mar. 1772.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

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Bentham, Jeremy. Publicity in the Courts of Justice. 1843.

Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite
Makes eating a delight.

Sir John Suckling

Fragmenta Aurea

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Suckling, John, Sir. Fragmenta Aurea. London: Humphrey Moseley, 1646, sonnet 2, stanza 3.

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Keynes, John Maynard. The Economic Consequences of the Peace. Self-published, 1919, ch. 1.

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Keynes, John Maynard. "The Economic Consequences of the Peace." The Essential Keynes. Penguin, edited by Robert Skidelsky, 2016, ch. 1.

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Winterson, Jeanette. Quoted in "Ten Rules for Writing Fiction: Part 2." Guardian, 19 Feb. 2010, www.theguardian.com/books/2010/feb/20/10-rules-for-writing-fiction-part-two.

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Graves, Robert. Good-Bye to All That. Jonathan Cape, 1929.

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Pope, Alexander, [published anonymously]. "An Essay on Criticism." London: W. Lewis, 1711, pt. 2, l. 335.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Criticism." Alexander Pope: The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 2, l. 335.

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Saki. "Reginald on Besetting Sins." Westminster Gazette, Sept. 1904.

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Saki. "Reginald on Besetting Sins." Selected Stories of Saki. Everyman's Library, 2017.