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Pound, Ezra. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. The Ovid Press, 1920, pt. 1, poem 4.

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Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. The Physiology of Taste [Physiologie du Goût]. Paris, 1825, aph. 9.

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Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy, translated by M. F. K. Fisher. Vintage, 2011, aph. 9.

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Colton, Charles Caleb. Lacon: Or Many Things In Few Words Addressed To Those Who Think. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820.

Nothing haunts like the things we don't say.

Mitch Albom

Have a Little Faith

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Albom, Mitch. Have a Little Faith: A True Story. Hachette Books/Hyperion, 2009.

Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born.

Robert Ardrey

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Ardrey, Robert. African Genesis: A Personal Investigation into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man. Atheneum, 1961.

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Russell, Bertrand. The Problems of Philosophy. Henry Holt and Company/Williams and Norgate, 1912, ch. 15.

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Steinbeck, John. Letter to Adlai Stevenson. 5 Nov. 1959.

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London, Jack. "To Build a Fire." The Youth's Companion, 29 May 1902.

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London, Jack. "To Build a Fire." The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories. Signet, 2009.

Luck, if you will, is something you work for, and the harder you work the more luck you have.

Esther Eberstadt Brooke

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Brooke, Esther Eberstadt. Career Clinic: The Answer to Your Job Problem. Farrar & Rinehart, 1940, pt. 3, ch. 2.

Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure.

Charlie Kaufman

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Kaufman, Charlie. "Screenwriters' Lecture: Charlie Kaufman." Screenwriters' Lecture Series. 30 Sept. 2011, British Film Institute, London, England, UK.

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Strauss, Leo. On Tyranny: An Interpretation of Xenophon's Hiero. The Free Press, 1948.

These be
Three silent things:
The falling snow... The hour
Before the dawn... The mouth of one
Just dead.

Adelaide Crapsey

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Crapsey, Adelaide. "Triad." Verse. Manas Press, 1915.

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Crapsey, Adelaide. "Triad." Complete Poems and Collected Letters of Adelaide Crapsey, edited by Susan S. Smith. State University of New York Press, 2016.

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Lewis, C. S. "The Shocking Alternative." 1942, Broadcasting House, London, England, UK. Radio broadcast.

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Lewis, C. S. "The Shocking Alternative." Mere Christianity. HarperOne, 2015.

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Peacock, Thomas Love. Melincourt. London: T. Hookham, and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1817, ch. 7.

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Peacock, Thomas Love. Melincourt, edited by Gary Dyer. Cambridge University Press, 2022, ch. 7.

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Thompson, Hunter S. “Security.” The Spectator, 1951.

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Muir, John. "The Yellowstone National Park." Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898.

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Muir, John. "The Yellowstone National Park." Our National Parks. Dover Publications, 2019.

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Vasari, Giorgio. Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori [Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects]. Florence, c. 1568.

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Vasari, Giorgio. The Lives of the Artists, translated by Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella. Oxford University Press, 2008, pt. 3.

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Hesse, Herman. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend [Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth]. Fischer Verlag, 1919.

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Hesse, Herman. Demian, translated by Damion Searls. Penguin Classics, 2013.