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Nash, Ogden. "The Kitten." The Face Is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash. Garden City Publishing Company, 1941.

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Yeats, William Butler. "A Dialogue of Self and Soul." The Winding Stair and Other Poems. The Macmillan Company, 1933, pt. 2, st. 1.

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Yeats, William Butler. "A Dialogue of Self and Soul." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Elizabeth Bowen

The House in Paris

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Bowen, Elizabeth. The House in Paris. Gollancz/Knopf, 1935.

Suffering is only intolerable when nobody cares.

Cicely Saunders

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Saunders, Cicely. "The Management of Patients in the Terminal Stage." Cancer. Vol. 6, Butterworth and Company, 1960.

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When Harry Met Sally... Directed by Rob Reiner, Nelson Entertainment/Castle Rock Entertainment, 1989.

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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society. London: John Newbery, 1764.

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Paine, Thomas. The American Crisis: Number 5. Lancaster: John Dunlap, 1778.

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Paine, Thomas. "The American Crisis, Number V, March 21, 1778." Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution. Library of America, 2015.

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Muir, John. Journal entry. July 1890.

It was a dark and stormy night.

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Paul Clifford

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Bulwer-Lytton, Edward. Paul Clifford. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830.

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Bulwer-Lytton, Edward. Paul Clifford. Penguin Classics, 2010.

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Annie Hall. Directed by Woody Allen, A Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe Production, 1977.

You ask if they were happy. This is not a characteristic of a European. To be contented-that's for the cows.

Coco Chanel

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Coco Chanel. Quoted in Coco Chanel: A Biography, written by Axel Madsen. Bloomsbury Publishing, 1990, ch. 35.

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Stand By Me. Directed by Rob Reiner, Act III Productions, 1986.

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Walker, Alice. "Did This Happen to Your Mother? Did Your Sister Throw Up a Lot?" Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning. The Dial Press, 1979, I. 24.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 18 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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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.

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Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. "Protest." Poems of Problems. W. B. Conkey Company, 1914.

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Meet the Parents. Directed by Jay Roach, TriBeCa Productions/Nancy Tenenbaum Productions, 2000.

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Southey, Robert. "The Battle of Blenheim." Metrical Tales and Other Poems. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805, I. 29.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." London: J. Wilford, 1733, ep. 3, I. 303.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, ep. 3, l. 303.