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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Beautiful and the Damned. Cambridge University Press, 2014, bk. 2, ch. 1.

Jefferson, Thomas. "A Summary View of the Rights of British America." Jefferson: Political Writings. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Twain, Mark. "Following the Equator." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 14.

Franklin, Benjamin. "To Josiah Quincy, Sr., September 11, 1783." Franklin Papers, Yale University, franklinpapers.org/framedVolumes.jsp.

Twain, Mark. "Following the Equator." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 24.

Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech at Peoria, Illinois, October 16, 1854." Lincoln Speeches, edited by Allen C. Guelzo and Richard Beeman. Penguin, 2012.

Geronimo. Quoted in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, written by Dee Brown. Picador, 2007, ch. 17.

Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech at Columbus, Ohio, September 16, 1859." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

Lincoln, Abraham. Quoted by Mary Todd in an interview with William H. Herndon, Sept. 1866. Herndon's Informants, edited by Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis. University of Illinois Press, 1998.

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 1.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Self-Reliance (1841)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

Jefferson, Thomas. "Jefferson to Adams • Monticello, June 10." The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams, edited by Lester J. Cappon. Omohundro Institute and The University of North Carolina Press, 1988.