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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 4.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Montaigne; or, the Skeptic (1850)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 8.

Milton, John. "The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce." John Milton: The Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Paine, Thomas. "The Age of Reason, Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (1794)." Selected Writings of Thomas Paine, edited by Ian Shapiro and Jane E. Calvert. Yale University Press, 2014.

Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels, edited by Albert J. Rivero. W. W. Norton & Company, 2001, pt. 4, ch. 5.

Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, edited by Pauline Phemister. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 2, ch. 1.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. The Letters of Mozart and His Family, edited by Emily Anderson. Springer, 2016.

Keller, Helen. "Optimism." The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays. Dover Publications, 2010, pt. 1.

Trump, Donald. Quoted in Checks in the Balance: Legislative Capacity and the Dynamics of Executive Power, written by Alexander Bolton and Sharece Thrower. Princeton University Press, 2021, ch. 1.