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Chesterton, G.K. "The Club of Queer Trades." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 6, Ignatius Press, 1991. Originally published by Harper & Brothers, 1905.

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Bagehot, Walter. "The Cabinet." The English Constitution. London: Chapman and Hall, 1867. Originally published in The Fortnightly Review, 15 May 1865 - 1 Jan. 1867.

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Bailey, Philip James. Festus. London: William Pickering, 1839.

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

John Howard Payne

Home, Sweet Home

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Payne, John Howard. "Home, Sweet Home." Clari, or the Maid of Milan. Composed by Henry Bishop. 1823, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London, England, UK.

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Wodehouse, P. G. The Adventures of Sally. Herbert Jenkins, 1922. Originally published in Collier's Magazine, 8 Oct. 1921-31 Dec. 1921.

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

Kingsley Amis

One Fat Englishman

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Amis, Kingsley. One Fat Englishman. Harcourt, Brace & World/Gollancz, 1963.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Louise Colet. 24 Apr. 1852.

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Flaubert, Gustave. The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1830-1857, translated and edited by Francis Steegmuller. Faber and Faber, 1981.

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Peacock, Thomas Love. "Gryll Grange." Fraser's Magazine, 1860.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
As sages in all times assert;
The happy man's without a shirt.

John Heywood

Be Merry Friends

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Heywood, John. Be Merry Friends. c. 1580.

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Pasternak, Boris. До́ктор Жива́го [Dr. Zhivago]. Feltrinelli, pt. 2, ch. 13, sect. 12.

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Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Vintage International, 2011, pt. 2, ch. 13, sect. 12.

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Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity's Rainbow. Viking Press, 1973.

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "John Dryden." Edinburgh Review, Jan. 1828.

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Ruskin, John. "Of Kings Treasures." Sesame and Lilies. 1864, Manchester, UK.

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Ruskin, John. Sesame and Lilies. The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 18, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.

Dorothea Mackellar

Core of My Heart

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Mackellar, Dorothea. "Core of My Heart." The Spectator, 5 Sept. 1908.

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Mackellar, Dorothea. "My Country." My Country and Other Poems. Viking, 1988.

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Addison, Joseph. "Monday, June 23, 1712." The Spectator, 1712, no. 412.

To men a man is but a mind. Who cares
What face he carries or what form he wears?
But woman's body is the woman.

Ambrose Bierce

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Bierce, Ambrose. The Cynic's Word Book. Arthur F. Bird, 1906.

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Bierce, Ambrose. The Devil's Dictionary. Dover Publications, 1993.

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Turner, Frederick Jackson. "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." American Historical Association meeting. 1893, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL, USA.

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McCrae, John. "In Flanders Fields." Punch, 8 Dec. 1915.

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Sumner, William Graham. Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals. Ginn & Company, 1906, ch. 5.

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Addison, Joseph. The Spectator. London, 10 Sept. 1711, no. 166.