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Russell, Bertrand. "In Praise of Idleness." In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays. George Allen & Unwin, 1935. Originally published in Harper's Magazine, Oct. 1932.

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McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West. Random House, 1985, ch. 17.

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Wallace, David Foster. Commencement address at Kenyon College. Commencement. 21 May 2005, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, USA.

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Wallace, David Foster. This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion about Living a Compassionate Life. Little, Brown and Company, 2009.

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Malthus, Thomas [published anonymously]. An Essay on the Principle of Population. London: J. Johnson, 1798, ch. 1.

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Malthus, Thomas. "An Essay on the Principle of Population." An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings, edited by Robert Mayhew. Penguin Classics, 2015, ch. 1.

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Craik, Dinah Mulock. "Magnus and Morna." Thirty Years: Being Poems, New and Old. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1881, sc. 2.

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Krishnamurti, Jiddu. Think on These Things. Harper & Row, 1964, ch. 20.

I am not over-fond of resisting temptation.

William Beckford

Vathek

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Beckford, William [published anonymously]. An Arabian Tale, From an Unpublished Manuscript, translated by Samuel Henley. London: J. Johnson, 1786.

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Beckford, William. Vathek, translated by Samuel Henley. Oxford University Press, 2013.

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Collier, Mary. "The Three Wise Sentences, from the First Book of Esdras." The Woman's Labour: an Epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck: in Answer to His Late Poem, Called The Thresher's Labour. To which are Added, The Three Wise Sentences, Taken from the First Book of Esdras, Ch. III. and IV. London, 1739.

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Collier, Mary. "The Three Wise Sentences Taken from The First Book of Esdras." The Woman's Labour and Other Poems. Renard Press, 2021.

From wine what sudden friendship springs!

John Gay

Fables (Part 2)

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Gay, John. "The Squire and his Cur." Fables. London: John Knapton, Paul Knapton, and T. Cox, 1738, pt. 2. 1738.

I've been rich, and I've been poor. Rich is better.

Beatrice Kaufman

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Kaufman, Beatrice. Quoted in "The Post's New Yorker." Written by Leonard Lyons. The Washington Post, 12 May 1937, quote p. 13.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter: A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1850, ch. 4.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, edited by Brian Harding. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 4.

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Bacon, Francis. "Of Adversity." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

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Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Adversity." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Burke, Edmund. A Letter to John Farr and John Harris, Esqs., Sheriffs of the City of Bristol, on the Affairs of America. London: J. Dodsley, 3 Apr. 1777.

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Burke, Edmund. "A Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol on the Affairs of America." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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Nerval, Gerard De. Vers Dores. c. 1843, l. 8.

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Popper, Karl. The Open Society and Its Enemies. Vol. 1, Routledge, 1995, notes to the chapters, ch. 7, note 4.

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Milton, John. "A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle." 29 Sept. 1634, Ludlow Castle, Ludlow, England, UK, line 410.

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Milton, John. "A Masque...Presented at Ludlow Castle ['Comus']." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, line 410.

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Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 1.

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Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869, ch. 4.

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Mill, John Stuart. "The Subjection of Women." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 4.

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Chandler, Raymond. The Big Sleep. Alfred A. Knopf, 1939, ch. 3.

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Housman, Alfred Edward. A Shropshire Lad. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., 1896, no. 62, I. 21.

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Housman, Alfred Edward. "A Shropshire Lad." A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems, edited by Archie Burnett. Penguin Classics, 2010, no. 62, I. 21.