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Shakespeare, William. "Much Ado About Nothing." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 3.

Brecht, Bertolt. The Good Person Of Szechwan, edited by Tom Kuhn and Charlotte Ryland, translated by John Willett. Methuen Drama, 2012.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Maugham, William Somerset. Of Human Bondage. Signet, 2007, ch. 122.

Lord Byron. "Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa." The Collected Poems of Lord Byron. Wordsworth, 1994.

Kierkegaard, Soren. Fear and Trembling, translated by Alastair Hannay. Penguin Classics, 1986.

Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara. Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021, act 3.

Bentham, Jeremy. "A Fragment on Government." A Comment on the Commentaries and A Fragment on Government, edited by J.H. Burns and H.L.A Hart. Clarendon Press, 2009, preface.

Ruskin, John. Modern Painters 4. The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 6, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pt. 4, ch. 3.

Young, Edward. Edward Young: Night Thoughts, edited by Stephen Cornford. Cambridge University Press, 2008, Night 4, I. 233.