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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "The Rajah's Diamond: Story of the House with the Green Blinds." New Arabian Nights. London: Chatto & Windus, 1882.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 9 July 1763.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

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Shakespeare, William. "All's Well that Ends Well." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 5, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "All's Well That Ends Well." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 3.

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Eliot, George. Adam Bede. Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1859, ch. 36.

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Eliot, George. Adam Bede, edited by Carol A. Martin. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 36.

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Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. George Allen & Unwin, 1954, ch. 2.

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

John Dryden

To My Dear Friend, Mr. Congreve, On His Comedy Called The Double-Dealer

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Dryden, John. "To My Dear Friend, Mr. Congreve, On His Comedy Called The Double-Dealer." 1694, I. 60.

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John Dryden. "To my Dear Friend Mr. Congreve (1694)." John Dryden: Selected Writings, edited by Steven N. Zwicker. Oxford University Press, 2020.

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De Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron. La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro [The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro]. 27 Apr. 1784, Théâtre Français, Paris, France, act 4, sc. 1.

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De Beaumarchais, Pierre- Augustin Caron. "The Marriage of Figaro." The Figaro Trilogy, translated by David Coward. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 4, sc. 1.

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Astell, Mary. Reflections Upon Marriage. London: W. Wilkin, 1706.

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Astell, Mary. "Some Reflections on Marriage." Astell: Political Writings. Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Self-Reliance." Essays: First Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Self-Reliance (1841)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Twain, Mark. A Tramp Abroad. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1880, ch. 43.

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Twain, Mark. "A Tramp Abroad." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount, Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 43.

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech on the Middlesex Election," House of Commons, 7 Feb. 1771, House of Commons, London, England, UK.

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech on the Middlesex Elections." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 16.

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Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams. Library of America, 1983, ch. 16.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Study in Scarlet." Beeton's Christmas Annual. London: Ward Lock & Co., 1887.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2012, pt. 2, ch. 6.

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Wordsworth, William. "Reflections." Ecclesiastical Sonnets. c. 1822, pt. 2, no. 28.

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Wordsworth, William. "Reflections." The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth. Wordsworth Editions, 1998.

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Paz, Octavio. Quoted in "A Conversation with the Soul of Mexico: In the Friction between Literature and Politics, Octavio Paz, the Patriarch of Mexican Letters, Has Captured His County's Essence. His One-Word Solution to Mexico's Turmoil? Freedom." Written by Anthony Day and Sergio Munoz. Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 1995.

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

Hannah Arendt

The Human Condition

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Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition. University of Chicago Press, 1958, ch. 6.

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Johnson, Samuel. Letter to Mrs. Thrale. 17 Mar. 1773.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Soul of Man Under Socialism." Fortnightly Review. London: Chapman and Hall, Feb. 1891.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Soul of Man Under Socialism." The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose, edited by Linda Dowling. Penguin Classics, 2001.

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Keller, Helen. "The Story of My Life." Ladies' Home Journal, 1902.

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Keller, Helen. The Story of My Life. Signet, 2010, ch. 22.

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Bentham, Jeremy, "Principles of the Civil Code." The Works of Jeremy Bentham, edited by John Bowring. Vol. 1, London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1843.