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Thomson, James. "The City of Dreadful Night." The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems. London: Reeves and Turner, 1880, st. 14. Originally published in the National Reformer, 1874.

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Spock, Benjamin. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946, ch. 1.

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Turgenev, Ivan. "Накануне [On the Eve]." The Russian Messenger, 1859.

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Turgenev, Ivan. On the Eve, translated by Michael Pursglove. Alma Classics, 2017, ch. 35.

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

Winifred Holtby

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Holtby, Winifred. Quoted in Testament of Friendship: The Story of Winifred Holtby, written by Vera Brittain. Macmillan & Co., 1940.

Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Barbara Ehrenreich

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Ehrenreich, Barbara. "Family Values." The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed. HarperCollins, 1991.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. "Every Man His Own Boswell." The Atlantic Monthly. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, Feb. 1858.

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Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Trade Publishers, 1927, ch. 17.

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Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Signet, 2007, ch. 17.

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Camus, Albert. La Chute [The Fall]. Editions Gallimard, 1956.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.

Marshall McLuhan

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McLuhan, Marshall. Advertising Aid. 3 Sept. 1976.

Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.

Elizabeth David

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David, Elizabeth. French Country Cooking. John Lehmann, 1951, introduction.

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Kundera, Milan. Le Livre du rire et de l'oubli [The Book of Laughter and Forgetting]. Gallimard, 1979.

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Kundera, Milan. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, translated by Aaron Asher. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999.

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Wells, H. G. The Outline of History. George Newnes, 1920.

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Gray, Thomas. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College. London: R. Dodsley, 1747.

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Chapman, John Jay. Letter to Elizabeth Chanler. 26 Mar. 1898.

A man is literally what he thinks.

James Allen

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Allen, James. As a Man Thinketh. 1903.

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Allen, James. As a Man Thinketh: The Complete Original Edition. St. Martin's Essential, 2019.

The great design of art is to restore the decays that happened to human nature by the fall, by restoring order.

John Dennis

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Dennis, John. The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry. London: Geo. Strahan and Bernard Lintott, 1704, ch. 2.

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Clare, John. Child Harold. c. 1840, I. 215.

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Clare, John. "Child Harold." John Clare: Major Works, edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell. Oxford University Press, 2008, I. 215.

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Gide, Andre. Les Faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters]. Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1925, pt. 1, ch. 8.

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Gide, Andre. The Counterfeiters, translated by Dorothy Bussy. Penguin Books, 1990, pt. 1, ch. 8.

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Bernard Shaw's Appreciation of Coburn." Camera Work, edited and published by Alfred Stieglitz, 1906, no. 15, p. 33.

He had that nameless charm, with a strong magnetism which can only be called "it."

Elinor Glyn

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Glyn, Elinor. "It." Cosmopolitan Magazine, Feb. - Mar. 1927.