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Smith, Sydney. Quoted in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith, by Saba Holland. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855, ch. 11.

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Miracle on 34th Street. Directed by George Seaton, 20th Century Fox, 1947.

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High Noon. Directed by Fred Zinnemann. Stanley Kramer Productions, 1952.

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Niebuhr, Reinhold. The Irony of American History. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952, ch. 3.

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Mencken, H. L. "Repetition Generale." Smart Set, Mar. 1921.

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Bellow, Saul. Mr. Sammler's Planet. Viking Press, 1970, pt. 6.

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Stated to his son, Philip Stanhope. c. 1773.

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Dahl, Roald. The Minpins. Jonathan Cape, 1991.

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Lowell, James Russell [published anonymously]. A Fable for Critics: A Glance at a Few of Our Literary Progenies. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1848.

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"Later." BoJack Horseman, written by Raphael Bob-Waksberg, directed by Martin Cendreda, season 1, episode 12, ShadowMachine and Tornante Company, 2014.

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Hand, Learned. "Morals in Public Life." Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. 28 June 1951, Washington, DC, USA. Testimony.

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Crevecoeur, Michel Guillaume Jean [published as J. Hector St. John]. "What Is an American?" Letters from an American Farmer. London: Davies & Davies, 1782.

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Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John. "Letters From an American Farmer." Letters From an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America, edited by Albert E. Stone. Penguin Classics, 1981.

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James, William. "Remarks At The Peace Banquet." Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1904. Originally remarks at the world peace banquet. 7 Oct. 1904, Boston, MA, USA.

We don't want so much to see a female Einstein become an assistant professor. We want a woman schlemiel to get promoted as quickly as a male schlemiel.

Bella Abzug

"Schlemiel" is a Yiddish term meaning, roughly, an unlucky, incompetent or foolish person.

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Abzug, Bella. US News and World Report. 25 Apr. 1977.

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Bruner, Jerome. The Process of Education. Harvard University Press, 1960, introduction.

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Foer, Jonathan Safran. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Houghlin Mifflin, 2005.

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Hart, Lorenz. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered." Pal Joey. Composed by Richard Rodgers. 25 Dec. 1940, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York City, New York, USA.

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Watts, Alan. The Way of Zen. Vintage Books, 1957.

Time, you old gipsy man,
Will you not stay,
Put up your caravan
Just for one day?

Ralph Hodgson

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Hodgson, Ralph. "Time, You Old Gipsy Man." Poems. The Macmillan Company, 1917, I. 1.

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry. Don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

Walter Hagen

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Hagen, Walter C. The Walter Hagen Story. Simon and Schuster, 1956.