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Patmore, Coventry. The Angel in the House. Self-published, 1854, bk. 2, canto 9, prelude 2.

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Shakespeare, William. Love's Labour's Lost. 1597, England, UK, act 4, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "Love's Labour's Lost." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 3.

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

L.P. Hartley

The Go-Between

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Hartley, L. P. The Go-Between. Hamish Hamilton, 1953, preface.

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 95.

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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. "My heart leaps up when I behold." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Friedman, Milton. Quoted in "Facing Inflation: Interview with Milton Friedman." Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs. Routledge, Nov.-Dec. 1973, p. 20.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Journal entry. 18 May 1848.

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Marquis, Donald. "Certain Maxims of Archy." Archy and Mehitabel. The Evening Sun, c. 1927.

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Mead, Margaret. Male & Female. Pelican, 1962, introduction.

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to his son. 4 Oct. 1746.

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Williams, Tennessee. "Tennessee Williams: Past and Present." Interviewed by Charles Ruas and Bill Lentch, WBAI-FM New York, 12 Dec. 1975.

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Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, 1908, ch. 11.

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Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Barnes & Noble, 2013, ch. 11.

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon
The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.

Robert Graves

The Persian Version

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Graves, Robert. "The Persian Version." Poems 1938-1945: Satires and Grotesques. Cassell & Company, 1946, I. 1.

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Reynolds, Joshua. "Discourse VI." 10 Dec. 1774, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, UK. Lecture.

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

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Guthrie, Woody. “I Ain’t a Gonna Kill Nobody.” People’s World, c. 1939.

Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.

John Churton Collins

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Collins, Churton. "Some Maxims and Reflections." The English Review, c. 1914.

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Samuel Butler. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, edited by Henry Festing Jones. A. C. Fifield, 1912, ch. 14.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Improvisatore. c. 1828.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Improvisatore." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Complete Poems, edited by William Keach. Penguin Classics, 1997.

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Rope. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Transatlantic Pictures, 1948.