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A wise traveler never despises his own country.

Carlo Goldoni

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Goldoni, Carlo. La Pamela [The Pamela]. 1750, Teatro Sant'Angelo, Venice, Italy, act 1, sc. 16.

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Jung, Carl. Die Tranzendente Funktion [The Transcendent Function]. C. G. Jung Institute, 1957.

Be England what she will,
With all her faults she is my country still.

Charles Churchill

The Farewell

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Churchill, Charles. The Farewell. London: W. Flexney, 1764, I. 27.

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Congreve, William. The Old Bachelor. United Company, 1693, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 7.

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Congreve, William. "The Old Bachelor." The Way of the World and Other Plays, edited by Eric S. Rump. Penguin Classics, 2006, act 4, sc. 7.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Biographia Literaria, edited by Niger Leask. Vol. 2, London: J. M. Dent, 1817, ch. 15.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Biographia Literaria." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 15.

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to his son. 16 Oct. 1747.

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Tennyson, Alfred. "Ulysses." Poems. Vol. 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1842, I. 13.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "Ulysses." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 13.

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Howard, Jane. "Doom and Glory of Knowing Who You Are." Life Magazine, 24 May 1963.

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Scott, Walter, Sir. Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co./London: William Miller and John Murray, 1808, canto 2, st. 30.

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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. "Declaration of Sentiments." Women's Rights Convention. 19 July 1848, Wesleyan Chapel, Seneca Falls, NY, USA.

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Post, Emily. Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home. Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1922.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 13 June 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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Young, Edward. The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality. London: R. Dodsley, 1742-1745, Night 4, I. 118.

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Young, Edward. Edward Young: Night Thoughts, edited by Stephen Cornford. Cambridge University Press, 2008, Night 4, l. 118.

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Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.

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Sterne, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Vol. 7, London: Becket & DeHondt, 1765, ch. 2.

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Sterne, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, edited by Ian Campbell Ross. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 2, sc. 2.

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

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McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West. Random House, 1985, ch. 21.

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Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940, bk. 1.

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Carlyle, Thomas. "Sir Walter Scott." London and Westminster Review, 12 Nov. 1838.

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Carlyle, Thomas. "Sir Walter Scott." The Works of Thomas Carlyle, edited by Henry Duff Traill. Vol. 29, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West. Random House, 1985, ch. 14.