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Quarles, Francis. Emblemes, Divine and Moral. London, 1635, bk. 3, emblem 7.

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Gray, Thomas. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. London: Robert Dodsley, 1751.

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Gray, Thomas. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard." Elegy Written In Country Churchyard and Other Poems. Penguin Classics, 2009.

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence-free of the network of dead speech.

Freya Stark

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Stark, Freya. Perseus in the Wind. London: John Murray, 1948, ch. 1.

A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

Michael Kinsley

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Kinsley, Michael. The Guardian. 14 Jan. 1992.

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Palahniuk, Chuck. Diary. Doubleday, 2003.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

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Peter, Laurence J. The Peter Principle. William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1969, ch. 1.

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Dewey, John. "The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action." 1928–1929, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Adorno, Theodor. "Über den Fetischcharakter in der Musik und die Regression des Hörens [On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening]." Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung [Journal of Social Research], 1938.

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Adorno, Theodor. "On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening." Modernism: An Anthology of Documents, edited by Vassiliki Kolocotroni, Jane Goldman and Olga Taxidou. University of Chicago Press, 1998.

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Faulkner, William. "The Bear." Go Down, Moses. Random House, 1942, pt. 4.

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Didion, Joan. "Self-respect: Its Source, Its Power." Vogue, 1 Aug. 1961.

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Didion, Joan. "On Self-Respect." Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.

Fair face show friends
When riches do abound:
Come time of proof,
Farewell, they must away.

Barnabe Googe

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Googe, Barnabe. Of Money. c. 1563.

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Hazlitt, William. "The Indian Jugglers." Table-Talk; Or, Original Essays. Vol. 1, London: John Warren, 1821.

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Hazlitt, William. "The Indian Jugglers." The Spirit of Controversy and Other Essays, edited by Jon Mee and James Grande. Oxford University Press, 2021.

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Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1899, ch. 38.

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Chopin, Kate. "The Awakening." The Awakening and Selected Stories. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 38.

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Ingersoll, Robert Green. "The Christian Religion." The North American Review, Aug. 1881.

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

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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. 4.

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Sandburg, Carl. The People, Yes. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1936, no. 23.

Some of my best friends are white boys.
When I meet 'em
I treat 'em
just the same as if they was people.

Ray Durem

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Durem, Ray. Broadminded. c. 1951.

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Brittain, Vera. "Married Love." Poems of the War and After. Victor Gollancz, 1934.