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Hawking, Steven. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. Bantam Dell Publishing Group, 1988, conclusion.

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Wordsworth, William. "I travell'd among unknown Men." Poems, in Two Volumes. London: Vol. 1, Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1807, st. 1.

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Wordsworth, William. "I travelled among unknown Men." William Wordsworth: The Major Works including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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

But the wheel what squeaks the loudest
Is the one what gets the grease.

Josh Billings

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Stewart, Cal. Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories. Punkin Centre Company, 1903, epigraph to Uncle Josh Weathersby.

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Adams, Douglas. "Interview: Douglas Adams." Interviewed by Brendan Buhler. Artsweek. University of California Santa Barbara Daily Nexus, 5 Apr. 2001.

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Adams, Douglas. The Salmon of Doubt. William Heinemann Ltd./Pocket Books, 2002, ch. 11.

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Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler. London: Richard Marriot, 1653, pt. 1, ch. 5.

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Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler, edited by Marjorie Swann. Oxford University Press, 2014, pt. 1, ch. 5.

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Shakespeare, William. Henry the Sixth, Part 3. London: Thomas Millington, 1595, act 4, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Third Part of Henry the Sixth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 1.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. "Die vierte Elegie [Fourth Elegy]." Duineser Elegien [Duino Elegies]. Insel-Verlag, 1923.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Duino Elegies, translated by David Young. W. W. Norton & Company, 2006.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Louise Colet. 23 Oct. 1851.

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Flaubert, Gustave. The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1830-1857, translated and edited by Francis Steegmuller. Faber and Faber, 1981.

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Blake, William. Poem written in his notebook. c. 1792.

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Blake, William. "Never Pain to Tell Thy Love." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

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Irving, Washington. "The Creole Village." Knickerbocker Magazine, 12 Nov. 1836.

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

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth." Tales of a Wayside Inn. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1873, sect. 4.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Favorite Poems. Dover Publications, 1992, sect. 4.

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Walpole, Horace. Letter to Horace Mann. 27 March 1772.

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Walpole, Horace. "Letter to Horace Mann." Horace Walpole's Correspondence, edited by W. S. Lewis, Warren Hunting Smith, and George Lam. Vol. 23, Yale University Press, 1967.

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Bailey, Philip John. Festus. London: William Pickering, 1839.

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Bailey, Philip John. Festus, edited by Mischa Willett. Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

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Auden, W. H. "The Witnesses." Listener’s poetry supplement, 12 July 1933.

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Frost, Robert. "Acquainted with the Night." The Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 1928, st. 1, I. 1.

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Chesterton, G.K. "The Man Who Was Thursday." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 6, Ignatius Press, 1991. Originally published by J.W. Arrowsmith, 1904.

"Whom are you?" he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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Ade, George. "The Steel Box." Chicago Record, 16 Mar. 1898.

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Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Schocken Books, 1951, pt. 3, ch. 13.