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Error is a hardy plant: it flourisheth in every soil.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Of Truth in Things False

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Tupper, Martin Farquhar. "Of Truth in Things False." Proverbial Philosophy. London: Joseph Rickerby, 1838.

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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 4, 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 4, sc. 3.

Love's a disease. But curable.

Rose Macaulay

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Macaulay, Rose. Crewe Train. W. Collins Sons & Co./Boni and Liveright, 1926, ch. 13.

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Macaulay, Rose. Crewe Train. Virago, 2018, ch. 13.

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Pushkin, Alexander. Devils. c. 1830.

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Pushkin, Alexander. "Demons (1830)." Alexander Pushkin: Selected Poetry, translated by Antony Wood. Penguin Classics, 2020.

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Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions. Macmillan, 1899, ch. 6.

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Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class, edited by Martha Banta. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 6.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "9 May 1830." Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. London: John Murray, 1835.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge (2nd ed 1836)." The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, vol. 14: Table Talk, edited by Kathleen Coburn and Bart Winer. Princeton University Press, 2019.

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Sontag, Susan. "The Heroism of Vision." On Photography. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977.

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution [The Ancien Régime and the Revolution]. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1856, pt. 1, ch. 3.

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. The Ancien Regime and the Revolution, translated by Gerald Bevan. Penguin Classics, 2008, pt. 1, ch. 3.

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Hesse, Hermann. "On Little Joys." My Belief: Essays on Life and Art, edited by Theodore Ziolkowski, translated by Denver Lindley. Farrar, Straus and Gioux, 1974. Originally published as "Virtuosen-Konzert." Neue Zürcher Zeitung, c. 1929.

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De Beauvoir, Simone. Le Deuxième Sexe [The Second Sex]. Vol. 2, Gallimard, 1949.

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De Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex, translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. Vintage, 2011.

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Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, 1599, Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Julius Caesar." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 1.

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Frankl, Victor. …trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager [Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy]. Verlag für Jugend und Volk, 1946.

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Frankl, Victor. Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, 2006.

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Ibsen, Henrik. Letter to Georg Brandes. 3 Jan. 1882.

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Greene, Robert. Greenes, Groats-worth of Witte, bought with a million of Repentance. London: William Wright, 1592.

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Dawkins, Richard. The Selfish Gene. Oxford University Press, 1976, ch. 2.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855, pt. 10.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Song of Hiawatha." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, pt. 10.

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Camus, Albert. Notebook entry. c. 1940.

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Foucault, Michel. "Power, Moral Values, and the Intellectual." Interviewed and translated by Michael Bess. History of the Present, Spring 1988.

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Joyce, James. "A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man." The Egoist. 2 Feb. 1914 - 1 Sept. 1915. Serial.

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Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by John Paul Riquelme. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, ch. 5.

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Longus. Δάφνις καὶ Χλόη [Daphnis and Chloe]. c. 250, preface.

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Longus. Daphnis and Chloe, translated by Ronald McCail. Oxford University Press, 2009, preface.