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Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 19.

The Babylonian Talmud, translated by A. Cohen. Cambridge University Press, 2013, Mishnah "Pirqei Avot 2:5."

Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest, edited by Michael Patrick Gillespie. W. W. Norton & Company, 2022, act 2.

Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 29.

Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 12.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Plato; or, The Philosopher." The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Brooks Atkinson. Modern Library, 2000.

Milton, John. "Sonnet VII (How Soon Hath Time)." Milton: The Complete Poems, edited by John Leonard. Penguin, 1992, I. 1.

Conrad, Joseph. An Outcast of the Islands. Penguin Modern Classics, 1975, pt. 3, ch. 2.

Swift, Jonathan. "A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind." Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises: Polite Conversation, Directions Servants and Other Works, edited by Valerie Rumbold. Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Twain, Mark. Letter to Orion Clemens, 23 Mar. 1878. Collected Nonfiction of Mark Twain. Vol. 1, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016.

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

Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations, edited by Edwin Cannan. The Modern Library,, bk. 5, ch. 1, pt. 3.

Seneca the Younger. "Hercules Mad." The Complete Tragedies, translated by Shadi Barsch and Sussana Braund and David Konstan. Vol. 2, University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Locke, John. "The Epistle Dedicatory." An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, edited by Roger Woolhouse. Penguin Classics, 1998.

Proust, Marcel. Finding Time Again, edited and translated by Ian Patterson. Penguin Classics, 2023.