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Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations. Vol. 1, London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776, bk. 1, ch. 2.

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Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations, edited by Edwin Cannan. The Modern Library, bk. 1, ch. 2.

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Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species. London: John Murray, 1859, ch. 14.

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Darwin, Charles. The Origin of the Species, edited by William Bynum. Penguin, 2009, ch. 14.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Die fröhliche Wissenschaft. [The Gay Science]. 1882. Translated by Walter Kaufman, Vintage Books, March 1974.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Gay Science. Translated by Walter Kaufman, Vintage Books, 1974, aphorism, 261.

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. 1651.

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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. Penguin, 2017.

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Diderot, Denis. Les Eleutheromanes. 1772.

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Yeats, William Butler. "The Second Coming." The Dial, Nov. 1919.

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Yeats, William Butler. "The Second Coming." The Major Works. Oxford UP, 2008.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 1, sc. 3.

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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.

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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Bulwer-Lytton, Edward. Richelieu. 1839, act 2, sc. 2.

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Frost, Robert. "The Road Not Taken." Mountain Interval. Henry Holt, 1916, st. 4, I. 3.

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Frost, Robert. "The Road Not Taken." Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays, edited by Richard Poirier and Mark Richardson. Library of America, 1995, st. 4, I. 3.

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Sophocles. Antigone. 441 BC, l 333.

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Sophocles. "Ajax." The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus. Translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin, 2000, l. 333.

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Traubel, Horace. With Walt Whitman in Camden (July 16, 1888 – October 31, 1888). Vol. 2. Rowman and Littlefield, 1961.

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Du contrat social; ou Principes du droit politique [The Social Contract]. 1762.

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. "Of the Social Contract." Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings. Translated by Quintin Hoare. Penguin, 2012.

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." Sonnets from the Portuguese. 1850, sonnet XLIII.

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Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching. 6th century B. C., ch. 64, l. 12.

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Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching: The Essential Translation of the Ancient Chinese Book of the Tao. Translated by John Minford. Penguin, 2019.

All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

Metaphysics

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Aristotle. Metaphysics. 322 BC, bk. 1, 980a.

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Aristotle. Metaphysics. Penguin, 1999, bk. 1, 980a.

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Virgil. Aeneid. 19 BC, bk. 10, l. 284.

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Virgil. The Aeneid. Translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin, 2010, bk. 10, l. 284.

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Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina. The Russian Messenger, 1878.

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Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina. Translated by Constance Garnett. Modern Library, 2000.

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Orwell, George. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story. Secker and Warburg, 1945, ch. 10.

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Descartes, René. Discours de la Méthode Pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences. 1637, pt. 4.

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Descartes, René. Discourse on the Method. Translated by Ian Maclean. Oxford UP, 2008, pt. 4.