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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "On Dreams." The Collected Works of Sir Thomas Browne. Norwich: Fletcher and Son, c. 1835.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "On Dreams." Sir Thomas Browne: The Major Works, edited by C. A. Patrides. Penguin Classics, 1977.

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Bradbury, Ray. "Usher II." The Martian Chronicles. Doubleday, 1950.

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Parkinson, C. Northcote. The Law and the Profits. Houghton Mifflin, 1960, ch. 1.

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

Naomi Klein

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Klein, Naomi. "From Pots to Politics." The Guardian, 11 May 2003, www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/12/argentina.comment

That action is best, which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

Francis Hutcheson

An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue

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Hutcheson, Francis. An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue. London: J. Darby, 1726, treatise 2, sect. 3, subsect. 8.

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Hutcheson, Francis. An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, edited by Wolfgang Leidhold. Liberty Fund, 2008.

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Hubbard, Elbert. "Thomas Arnold." Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers. The Roycrofters, 1908.

Wit is the only wall
Between us and the dark.

Mark Van Doren

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Doren, Mark Van. "Wit." Collected Poems 1922–1938. Henry Holt & Company, 1939, st. 1.

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Auden, W. H. Quoted in World Within World, by Stephen Spender. Hamish Hamilton/Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1951.

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Scott, Walter, Sir. The Lord of the Isles. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co./London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815, canto 5, st. 18.

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Parker, Dorothy. "Unfortunate Coincidence." Enough Rope. Boni & Liveright, 1926.

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Niebuhr, Reinhold. Pious and Secular America. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958.

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Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, 1908, ch. 2.

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Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Barnes & Noble, 2013, ch. 2.

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Tennyson, Alfred. The Princess. London: Edward Moxon, 1847, pt. 4.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "The Princess." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 4.

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Peele, George. The Hunting of Cupid. c. 1591.

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

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

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Updike, John. Self-Consciousness: Memoirs. Knopf, 1989, ch. 3.

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Buckley, William F., Jr. Quoted in "William F. Buckley, Jr.: Portrait of a Complainer." Interviewed by Dan Wakefield. Esquire Magazine, Jan. 1961.

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Addison, Joseph. "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, at Oxford." 1694.

The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took.

Alice Rossi

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Rossi, Alice S. The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir. Columbia University Press, 1973, pt. 2.

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Stevens, Wallace. "Two or Three Ideas." 28 Apr. 1951, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, USA. Speech.