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Mencken, Henry Louis. Mencken: Prejudices: The First, Second, and Third Series, edited by Marion Rodgers. Library of America, 2010, ch. 14, sec. 3. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1922.

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Graves, Robert. "Sick Love." Poems 1929. Seizin Press, 1929, l. 10-12.

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Graves, Robert. "Sick Love." The Complete Poems: In One Volume. Penguin Books, 2003, l. 10-12.

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Russell, Bertrand. "The Recrudescence of Puritanism." Sceptical Essays. George Allen and Unwin Ltd./W. W. Norton & Company, 1928.

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Cowper, William. "Light Shining out of Darkness." Twenty-six Letters on Religious Subjects; to which are added Hymns. London: J. and W. Oliver, 1774.

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Cowper, William. "Light Shining out of Darkness." William Cowper's Olney Hymns. Curiosmith, 2009.

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Heinlein, Robert A. "Second Intermission." Time Enough for Love. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1973.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

Herbert A. Simon

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Simon, Herbert. "Designing Organizations for an Information Rich World." Computers, Communications, and the Public Interest, edited by Martin Greenberger. Johns Hopkins Press, 1971.

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Bagehot, Walter. Physics and Politics. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873, ch. 5.

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Bagehot, Walter. Physics and Politics. Cambridge University Press, 2010, ch. 5.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

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

The dragon-green, the luminous, the dark, the serpent-haunted sea.

James Elroy Flecker

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Flecker, James Elroy. "The Gates of Damascus." The Collected Poems of James Elroy Flecker. Doubleday, Page & Co., 1916, I. 33.

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Zamyatin, Yevgeny. "On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters." A Soviet Heretic, translated by Mirra Ginsburg. University of Chicago Press, 1970. Originally published in 1923.

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Hoffer, Eric. "On Nature and Human Nature." Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer. Harper & Row, 1982.

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Jerome, Jerome Klapka. Three Men in a Boat. London: J. W. Arrowsmith, 1889, ch. 15.

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Jerome, Jerome Klapa. "Three Men in a Boat." Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel, edited by Jeremy Lewis. Penguin Classics, 2000, ch. 15.

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

M.F.K. Fisher

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Fisher, Mary Frances Kennedy. An Alphabet for Gourmets. The Viking Press, 1949.

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Mizner, Wilson. Quoted in The Legendary Mizners, written by Alva Johnston. Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953, ch. 4.

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Melville, Herman. "Pontoosuce." Works. Vol. 16, Constable, 1924, I. 71.

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Melville, Herman. "Pontoosuce." Selected Poems of Herman Melville. Penguin Classics, 2006, I. 71.

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London, Jack. The Call of the Wild. Macmillan, 1903, ch. 3.

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London, Jack. "The Call of the Wild." The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories. Signet, 2009, ch. 3.

For the two of us, home isn't a place. It's a person. And we're finally home.

Stephanie Perkins

Anna and the French Kiss

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Perkins, Stephanie. Anna and the French Kiss. Dutton Juvenile, 2010, ch. 47.

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Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 2, sc. 7.

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Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 7.

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Crevecoeur, Michel Guillaume Jean [published as J. Hector St. John]. "What Is an American?" Letters from an American Farmer. London: Davies & Davies, 1782.

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Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John. "Letters From an American Farmer." Letters From an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America, edited by Albert E. Stone. Penguin Classics, 1981.

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Nozick, Robert. Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Basic Books, 1974, preface.