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Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present. London: Chapman and Hall, 1843, bk. 2, ch. 9.

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Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present, edited by David R. Sorensen and Brent E. Kinser. Oxford University Press, 2023, bk. 2, ch. 9.

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Up in the Air. Directed by Jason Reitman, DreamWorks Pictures/The Montecito Picture Company/Cold Spring Pictures/Rickshaw Productions/Right of Way Films, 2009.

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Happy Gilmore. Directed by Dennis Dugan, Brillstein-Grey Entertainment/Robert Simonds Productions, 1996.

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Boyz n the Hood. Directed by John Singleton, Columbia Pictures, 1991.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1937, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Second Inaugral Address: Washington, DC, January 20, 1937." Great Speeches, edited by John Grafton. Dover, 1999.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Self-Reliance." Essays: First Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841.

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

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Happy Gilmore. Directed by Dennis Dugan, Brillstein-Grey Entertainment/Robert Simonds Productions, 1996.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Study in Scarlet." Beeton's Christmas Annual. London: Ward Lock & Co., 1887.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2012, pt. 1, ch. 3.

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JFK. Directed by Oliver Stone, Le Studio Canal+/Regency Enterprises/Alcor Films/Ixtlan Corporation, 1991.

I'm a virgin. I'm just not very good at it.

Hot Shots

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Hot Shots. Directed by Jim Abrahams, 20th Century Fox, 1991.

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Whiplash. Directed by Damien Chazelle, Blumhouse Productions/Right of Way Films/Bold Films, 2014.

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Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones, 1818, letter 1.

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Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text. Penguin Classics, 2018, letter 1.

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Orwell, George. "Politics and the English Language." Horizon, Apr. 1946, vol. 13, issue 76, pp. 252-265.

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Orwell, George. "Politics and the English Language." The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, vol. 4: In Front of Your Nose 1945-1950, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. David R. Godine, 1999, no. 38.

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Madison, James [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 39: The Conformity of the Plan to Republican Principles." Independent Journal, 16 Jan. 1788.

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Madison, James. "No. 39: Constitution is strictly republican; is both federal and national.--Madison." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

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Wordsworth, William. Poems, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807.

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Wordsworth, William. "I wandered lonely as a cloud." William Wordsworth: The Major Works including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Maugham, William Somerset. Of Human Bondage. George H. Doran Company, 1915, ch. 71.

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Maugham, William Somerset. Of Human Bondage. Signet, 2007, ch. 71.

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Madison, James [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 10: The Same Subject Continued: The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection." Daily Advertiser, 22 Nov. 1787.

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Madison, James. "No. 10: An extensive republic a remedy for mischiefs of faction.--Madison." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

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Milton, John. "Samson Agonistes." Paradise Regained, A Poem in 4 Books, to which is added Samson Agonistes. London: John Starkey, 1671, I. 293.

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Milton, John. "Samson Agonistes." Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Complete Shorter Poems, edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. Fallon. Modern Library, 2012, I. 293.

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Hammett, Dashiell. "The Maltese Falcon." Black Mask, Sept. 1929 - Jan. 1930.

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Hammett, Dashiell. "The Maltese Falcon." The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest. Everyman's Library, 2000, ch. 12.

He rather hated the ruling few than loved the suffering many.

Jeremy Bentham

In reference to James Mill, the father of John Stuart Mill.

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Bentham, Jeremy. Quoted in Memories of Old Friends, being Extracts from the Journals and Letters of Caroline Fox, edited by H. N. Pym. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1882. Originally written as a journal entry dated 7 Aug. 1849.