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Gibran, Khalil. Sand and Foam. Alfred A. Knopf, 1926.

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Gibran, Khalil. Sand and Foam. Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

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Hardy, Thomas. "The Hand of Ethelberta." Cornhill Magazine, July 1875-May 1876. Monthly serial.

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Hardy, Thomas. The Hand of Ethelberta, edited by Tim Dolin. Penguin Classics, 1998.

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Dawkins, Richard. "Richard Dawkins: You Ask the Questions Special." The Independent, 4 Dec. 2006.

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Baldwin, James. "Many Thousands Gone." Partisan Review, Nov. 1951 - Dec. 1951.

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Baldwin, James. "Many Thousands Gone." James Baldwin: Collected Essays, edited by Toni Morrison. Library of America, 1998.

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Camus, Albert. "La Belle Époque [The Beautiful Era]." RUA Magazine, 15 Apr. 1953.

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Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 1, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1776, ch. 26.

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Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 1. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 26.

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Walker, Alice. "We Have a Beautiful Mother." Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991, I. 23.

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Sallust. Bellum Catilinae [War of Catiline]. c. 43–40 BC.

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Sallust. "The War with Catiline." The War with Catiline and The War with Jugurtha, translated by John T. Ramsey J. C. Rolfe. Harvard University Press, 2013.

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Blake, William. "The Tyger." Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. London, 1794.

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Blake, William. "The Tyger." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

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Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Letter to Lady Bute. 30 May 1756.

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Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. "Letter to Lady Bute." The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Volume III: 1752-1762, edited by Robert Halsband. Oxford University Press, 1967.

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Plutarch. "Demetrius." Βίοι Παράλληλοι [Parallel Lives]. c. 2nd century.

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Plutarch. "Demetrius." Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Roman Lives, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Chudleigh, Mary. "To the Ladies." Poems on Several Occasions. London: Bernard Lintott, 1703, I. 1.

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Chudleigh, Mary. "To the Ladies." The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh. Oxford University Press, 1993, I. 1.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]. c. 55 BC, bk. 3, l. 55.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. The Nature of Things, translated by Alicia Stallings. Penguin Classics, 2007, bk. 3, l. 55.

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Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Premature Burial." The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper, July 1844.

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Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Premature Burial." Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, edited by Patrick F. Quinn. Library of America, 1984.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Matthew Arnold

God and the Bible

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Arnold, Matthew. God and the Bible. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1875.

A man is so in the way in the house.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Cranford

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Gaskell, Elizabeth. "Cranford." Household Words, 1851-1853.

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Gaskell, Elizabeth. Cranford. Oxford University Press, 2011, ch. 1.

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Burns, Robert. "Ae Fond Kiss, and Then We Sever." Scots Musical Museum. 1791, I. 11.

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Burns, Robert. "Ae Fond Kiss." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994, I. 11.

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Johnson, Samuel. The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale. London: R. and J. Dodsley/W. Johnston, 1759, ch. 26.

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Johnson, Samuel. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Penguin Classics, 2007, ch. 26.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere." Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London: J. & A. Arch, 1798, pt. 6.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 6.

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O'Connor, Flannery. "Everything That Rises Must Converge." New World Writing, 1961.