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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise. Scribner, 1920, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 1, no. 7.

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Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, no. 7.

There is a wisdom of the Head, and...a wisdom of the Heart.

Charles Dickens

Hard Times: For These Times

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Dickens, Charles. "Hard Times: For These Times." Household Words, 22 July 1854, ch. 29.

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Dickens, Charles. Hard Times, edited by Fred Kaplan. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016, bk. 3, ch. 1.

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Aristotle. Politics. 4th century BC, bk. 2.

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Aristotle. Politics, translated by R. F. Stalley and Sir Ernest Barker. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1599, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 2.

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Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. London: Bradbury & Evans, June 1852, issue 4, ch. 13.

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Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 13.

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De Cervantes, Miguel. El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha [The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha]. Madrid: Francisco de Robles, 1605.

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De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote, translated and edited by John Rutherford. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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Virgil. Eclogae [Eclogues]. c. 30 BC, no. 2.

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Virgil. "The Eclogues." The Eclogues and The Georgics, translated by C. Day Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2009, no. 2.

Who told them
that they were dead.

Aeschylus

The Suppliant Maidens

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Aeschylus. Ἱκέτιδες, Hiketides [The Suppliants]. c. 455 BC.

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Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, satire 2.

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Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 2.

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Swift, Johnathan. "Dialogue III." Polite Conversation. London: Charles Wittinham & Co., 1738.

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Swift, Jonathan. "Polite Conversation." Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises: Polite Conversation, Directions Servants and Other Works, edited by Valerie Rumbold. Cambridge University Press, 2013, no. 2.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Pro Sestio [In Defense of Publius Sestio]. c. 56 BC, Rome, Italy.

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Augustine. De libero arbitrio voluntatis [On Free Choice of the Will]. c. 389, 1.5.11.33.

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Augustine. "On the Free Choice of the Will." Augustine: On the Free Choice of the Will, On Grace and Free Choice, and Other Writings, edited by Peter King. Cambridge University Press, 2010, 1.5.11.33.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Metropolitan Magazine

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "The Beautiful and Damned." Metropolitan Magazine, Sept. 1921 - March 1922.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Beautiful and the Damned. Cambridge University Press, 2014, bk. 2, ch. 1.

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Dickens, Charles. "Great Expectations." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, 3 Aug. 1861, issue 35, ch. 59.

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Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Penguin Classics, 2010, ch. 59.

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Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 60, I. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 60.

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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Letter to Sofya Ivanova. c. 29 Sept. 1867.

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Dostoevsky, Fyodor. "Letter to Sofya Ivanova, ca. September 29, 1867." Fyodor Dostoevsky: Complete Letters: 1860-1867, edited and translated by David A. Lowe, Ardis, 1989.

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Shakespeare, William. Othello. King's Men, 1 Nov. 1604, Palace of Whitehall, Westminster, London, England, UK, act 5, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Othello." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 2.

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Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan, 1865, ch. 10.

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Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Puffin Books, 2015, ch. 10.

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Milton, John. Paradise Lost. London: Samuel Simmons, 1667, bk. 7, I. 1001.

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"Paradise Lost." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 8, I. 364.