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Updike, John. "John Updike, The Art of Fiction No. 43." Interviewed by Charles Thomas Samuels. The Paris Review, Issue 45, Winter 1968.

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Peacham, Henry. The Compleat Gentleman. London: Francis Constable, 1622.

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Bacon, Francis "Of Marriage and Single Life." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

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Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Marriage and Single Life." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi. Il Gattopard [The Leopard]. Feltrinelli, 1958, ch. 1.

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Lampedusa, Giuseppe. The Leopard, translated by Archibald Colquhoun. Pantheon, 2007, ch. 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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Colman, George. The Heir at Law. 15 July 1797, Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 2.

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Colman, George. "The Heir at Law." The Plays of George Colman the Younger, edited by Peter Tasch. Vol. 2, Routledge, 2023, act 1, sc. 2.

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Huxley, Aldous. "Variations on a Philosopher." Themes and Variations. Chatto & Windus/Harper & Brothers, 1950.

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Hazlitt, William. "The Times Newspaper." Political Essays. London: William Hone, 1819.

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Hazlitt, William. "The Times Newspaper." The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt, edited by Duncan Wu. Vol. 4, Routledge, 2020.

The summer hath his joys,
And winter has delights;
Though love and all his pleasures are but toys,
They shorten tedious nights.

Thomas Campion

Third Book of Ayres

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Campion, Thomas. The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres. London, 1617, bk. 3.

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Hitchens, Christopher: "Ireland: 'We Ourselves': Suffering, Faith and Redemption." Critical Quarterly, Spring 1998.

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Hitchens, Christopher. "Ireland." Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere. Verso, 2000, pt. 1.

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Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1922, ch. 5.

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Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt, edited by Gordon Hutner. Oxford University Press, 2010, ch. 5.

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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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Burns, Robert. My Heart's in the Highlands. 1789.

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Burns, Robert. "Farewell to the Highlands (My Heart's in the Highlands)." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994.

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Mencken, Henry Louis. "The Divine Afflatus." H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: The First, Second, and Third Series, edited by Marion Rodgers. Library of America, 2010. Originally published by New York Evening Mail, 16 Nov. 1917.

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Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 20.

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Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 20.

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Saunders, George. Lincoln in the Bardo. Random House, 2017.

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Frost, Robert. "Cluster of Faith." In the Clearing. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962, poem 5.

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Donne, John. "The Anniversary." Songs and Sonnets. London, 1633, st. 1, I. 1.

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Donne, John. "The Anniversary." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2007, st. 1, I. 1.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

William Hazlitt

On Prejudice

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Hazlitt, William. "On Prejudice." Sketches and Essays. London: John Templeman, 1839.

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Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo, 2002.