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Updike, John. Rabbit at Rest. Alfred A. Knopf, 1990, ch. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 3, sc. 4.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 4.

For love is but discovery:
When that is made, the pleasure's done.

Thomas Southerne

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Southerne, Thomas. Sir Anthony Love; Or, The Rambling Lady. Sept. 1690, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, England, UK.

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Southerne, Thomas. Sir Anthony Love; or, the Rambling Lady. British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011.

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Dickinson, Emily. "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891, I. 1.

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Dickinson, Emily. "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, edited by Cristanne Miller. Belknap Press, 2016, I. 1.

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Beckett, Samuel. Fin de partie. Directed by Roger Blin. Performed by Roger Blin, Jean Martin, Georges Adet, and Christine Tsingos. 3 Apr. 1957, Royal Court Theatre, London, England, UK.

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Chandler, Raymond. "The Simple Art of Murder." Saturday Review of Literature, 15 Apr. 1950, introduction.

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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. "The Souls of White Folk." Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil. Harcourt, Brace And Howe, 1920.

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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. "The Souls of White Folk." Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Oxford University Press, 2014.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 31 Mar. 1772.

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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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Bentham, Jeremy. Publicity in the Courts of Justice. 1843.

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Jones, LeRoi (aka Imamu Amiri Baraka). "Tokenism: 300 Years for 5 Cents." Kulchur, Spring 1962, no. 5.

Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite
Makes eating a delight.

Sir John Suckling

Fragmenta Aurea

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Suckling, John, Sir. Fragmenta Aurea. London: Humphrey Moseley, 1646, sonnet 2, stanza 3.

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Popper, Karl. The Open Society and Its Enemies. Vol. 2, Routledge, 1995, ch. 25.

If you want something done right, do it yourself.

Charles-Guillaume Etienne

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Étienne, Charles-Guillaume. Bruïs et Palaprat. 1807, Théâtre-Français, Paris, France, sc. 3.

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Keynes, John Maynard. The Economic Consequences of the Peace. Self-published, 1919, ch. 1.

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Keynes, John Maynard. "The Economic Consequences of the Peace." The Essential Keynes. Penguin, edited by Robert Skidelsky, 2016, ch. 1.

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Winterson, Jeanette. Quoted in "Ten Rules for Writing Fiction: Part 2." Guardian, 19 Feb. 2010, www.theguardian.com/books/2010/feb/20/10-rules-for-writing-fiction-part-two.

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Yoshida Kenko. Tsurezuregusa [Essays in Idleness]. c. 1332, ch. 13.

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Yoshida Kenko. Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko, translated by Donald Keene. Columbia University Press, 1998, ch. 13.

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Graves, Robert. Good-Bye to All That. Jonathan Cape, 1929.

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Pope, Alexander, [published anonymously]. "An Essay on Criticism." London: W. Lewis, 1711, pt. 2, l. 335.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Criticism." Alexander Pope: The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 2, l. 335.

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Saki. "Reginald on Besetting Sins." Westminster Gazette, Sept. 1904.

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Saki. "Reginald on Besetting Sins." Selected Stories of Saki. Everyman's Library, 2017.

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Wordsworth, William. "The Tables turned; an Evening Scene, on the same subject." Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London: J. & A. Arch, 1798, I. 26.

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Wordsworth, William. "The Tables Turned." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008, I. 26.