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It takes all sorts to make a world.

Douglas Jerrold

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Jerrold, Douglas. The Story of a Feather. London: Punch Office, 1844, ch. 28.

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Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869, ch. 1.

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Mill, John Stuart. "The Subjection of Women." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 1.

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Keynes, John Maynard. The End of Laissez-Faire. Hogarth Press, 1926, ch. 1.

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Keynes, John Maynard. "The End of Laissaz-faire." The Essential Keynes. Penguin, edited by Robert Skidelsky, 2016, ch. 1.

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Johnson, Samuel. The Rambler. London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 12 Mar. 1751.

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. "On Medical Education." 1870, University College London, London, England, UK.

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. "On Medical Education." Collected Essays. Vol. 3, Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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Savile, George. "Miscellaneous: Lying." A Character of King Charles The Second and Political, Moral and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections. London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750.

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Hawking, Steven. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. Bantam Dell Publishing Group, 1988, conclusion.

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Keats, John. "To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent." Poems. London: C. & J. Ollier, 1817, I. 1.

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Keats, John. "To one who has been long in city pent." John Keats: The Major Works, edited by Elizabeth Cook. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 1.

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Auden, W. H. "The Protestant Mystics." Forewords and Afterwords. Random House/Faber and Faber, 1973.

My work is completed by the viewer.

Bridget Riley

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Riley, Bridget. "The Life of Riley." Interviewed by Jonathan Jones. Guardian, July 4, 2008, www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/jul/05/art1.

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Young, Edward. The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality. London: R. Dodsley, 1742-1745, Night 1, I. 390.

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Young, Edward. Edward Young: Night Thoughts, edited by Stephen Cornford. Cambridge University Press, 2008, Night 1, I. 390.

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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1866, ch. 27.

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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical, edited by Lynda Mugglestone. Penguin Classics, 1995, ch. 27.

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Keats, John. Letter to Fanny Brawne. 13 Oct. 1819.

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Keats, John. "Letter to Fanny Brawne, October 13, 1819." The Selected Letters of John Keats, edited by John Barnard. Penguin Classics, 2015.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 14 Sept. 1773.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in "The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides." A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, edited by Jack Lynch and Celia Barnes. Oxford University Press, 2021.

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Keats, John. Letter to Benjamin Bailey. 22 Nov. 1817.

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Keats, John. "Benjamin Bailey 22 November 1817." John Keats: Selected Letters, edited by John Barnard. Penguin Classics, 2015.

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Keynes, John Maynard. "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren." The Nation and Athenaeum, 11 and 18 Oct. 1930.

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Keynes, John Maynard. "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren (1930)." The Essential Keynes. Penguin, edited by Robert Skidelsky, 2016.

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Wodehouse, P. G. The Man Upstairs. Methuen & Co., 1914, title story. Originally published in The Strand Magazine/Cosmopolitan, Mar. 1910.

Love…that cordial drop heaven in our cup has thrown
To make the nauseous draught of life go down.

John Wilmot

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Wilmot, John. A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country. London, c. 1680.

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Wilmot, John. "A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country." The Complete Works of John Wilmot. Penguin Classics, 1994.

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Henry Fielding

Amelia

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Fielding, Henry. Amelia. London: Andrew Millar, 1752, bk. 3, ch. 4.

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Chesterton, G.K. "Orthodoxy." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 1, Ignatius Press, 1986, ch. 4. Originally published in by John Lane Co., 1908.