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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Journal entry. May 1849.

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Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. 1895, St James's Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1.

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Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest, edited by Michael Patrick Gillespie. W. W. Norton & Company, 2022, act 1.

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Hugo, Victor. Le roi s'amuse [The King Amuses Himself]. 22 Nov. 1832, La Comédie Française, Paris, France, act 2, sc. 4.

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Hugo, Victor. "The King Amuses Himself." Three Plays by Victor Hugo, translated by Camilla Crosland and Frederick L. Slous. Washington Square Press, 1964.

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Plautus, Titus Maccius. Miles Gloriosus [The Swaggering Soldier]. c. 206 BC.

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Catullus, Gaius Valerius. Carmina. c. 1481, no. 43, l. 8.

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Cattulus, Gaius Valerius. The Poems of Catullus, translated by Guy Lee. Oxford University Press, 2009, no. 43, l. 8.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

George Orwell

The Road to Wigan Pier

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Orwell, George. The Road to Wigan Pier. Victor Gollancz, 1937, pt. 2, ch. 11.

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Angelou, Maya. "The West Interview: Maya Angelou." Interviewed by Sal Manna. San Jose Mercury News, 22 June 1986.

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Keller, Helen. Optimism. T. Y. Crowell and Company, 1903, pt. 2.

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Keller, Helen. "Optimism." The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays. Dover Publications, 2010, pt. 2.

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Vitruvius Pollio. De Architectura Libri Decem [Ten Books of Architecture]. Rome: Fra Giovanni Sulpitius, c. 1486, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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Vitruvius Pollio. Ten Books on Architecture, edited by Ingrid D. Rowland and Thomas Noble Howe. Cambridge University Press, 2001, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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Catullus, Gaius Valerius. Carmina. c. 1481, no. 76, l. 13.

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Cattulus, Gaius Valerius. The Poems of Catullus, translated by Guy Lee. Oxford University Press, 2009, no. 76, l. 13.

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Montesquieu. Uzbek to Ibben. 20th of the moon of Rhegeb, 1713.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Immanuel Kant

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

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Kant, Immanuel. Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten [Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals]. Riga: J. F. Hartknoch, 1785.

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Kant, Immanuel. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, translated by Mary Gregor and Jes Timmermann. Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Morrison, Toni. "The Language Must Not Sweat." Interviewed by Thomas LeClair. The New Republic, 21 Mar. 1981.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Quoted in Beloved Infidel: The Education of a Woman, written by Sheilah Graham and Gerold Frank. Henry Holt, 1958, ch. 18.

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Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Vol. 3, London: Thomas Egerton, 1814, ch. 34.

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Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 34.

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Yeats, William Butler. "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven." The Wind Among Reeds. New York and London: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1899.

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Yeats, William Butler. "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." The Century Magazine, Nov. 1893-Oct. 1894.

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." Pudd'nHead Wilson and Other Tales, edited by R.D. Gooder. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Twain, Mark. "The Memorable Assassination." What is Man? And Other Essays. Harper & Brothers, 1917.

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Plotinus. The Six Enneads. c. 270, bk. 2, treatise 3.

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Plotinus. The Enneads, edited by Lloyd P. Gerson, translated by George Boys-Stones, et. al. Cambridge University Press, 2018, bk. 2, treatise 3.

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Hemmingway, Ernest. Quoted in With Hemmingway: A Year in Key West and Cuba, by Arnold Samuelson. Random House, 1984.