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Eliot, T. S. "Phillip Massinger." The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism. Methuen & Co., 1920.

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Eliot, T. S. "Phillip Massinger." The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays. Dover Publications, 1998.

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Shaw, George Bernard. Quoted in Days with Bernard Shaw, written by Stephen Winsten. Vanguard Press, 1949.

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Chekhov, Anton. Diary entry. c. 1885.

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Chekhov, Anton. The Notebooks of Anton Chekhov and Reminiscences of Chekhov, translated by S. S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf. University Press of the Pacific, 2002.

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Dryden, John. The Hind and the Panther: A Poem, in Three Parts. London: Jacob Tonson, 1687, pt. 3, I. 388.

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Dryden, John. "The Hind and the Panther." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2002, pt. 3, I. 388.

Accurst be he that first invented war.

Christopher Marlowe

Tamburlaine the Great

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Marlowe, Christopher. Tamburlaine the Great. Admiral's Men, 1587, Rose Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 4.

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Marlowe, Christopher. Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays, edited by Frank Romany and Robert Lindsey. Penguin Classics, 2004, act 2, sc. 4.

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Herr, Michael. "Colleagues." Dispatches. Alfred A. Knopf, 1977, pt. 3.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Village Blacksmith." The Knickerbocker. New York City: Lewis Gaylord Clark, Nov. 1840, I. 1.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Village Blacksmith." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems & Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, I. 1.

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Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler. London: Richard Marriot, 1653, pt. 1, ch. 18.

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Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler, edited by Marjorie Swann. Oxford University Press, 2014, pt. 1, ch. 18.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Letter to Maria Gisborne." Posthumous Poems. London: John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824, I. 193.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Letter to Maria Gisborne." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 193.

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Paine, Thomas. The American Crisis: Number 1. Philadelphia: Styner and Cist, 1776.

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Paine, Thomas. "The American Crisis, Number I, December 19, 1776." Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution. Library of America, 2015.

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Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night, Or What You Will. 1602, Middle Temple Hall, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 4.

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

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Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, 1599, Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "Julius Caesar." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 3.

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Smith, Sydney. Quoted in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith, by Saba Holland. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855, ch. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. King Lear. King's Men, 26 Dec. 1606, Palace of Whitehall, Westminster, England, UK, act 4, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Tragedy of King Lear." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 1.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

Richard Milward

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Selden, John. Table-talk, being discourses of John Seldon, Esq. London: Alex Murray and Sons, 1689.

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Hesse, Herman. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend [Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth]. Fischer Verlag, 1919.

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Hesse, Herman. Demian, translated by Damion Searls. Penguin Classics, 2013.

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Nash, Ogden. "The Cow." Free Wheeling. Simon and Schuster, 1931.

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Kerouac, Jack. Big Sur. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962, ch. 9.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. Religio Medici. London, 1643, pt. 1, sec. 25.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Religio Medici (1643)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, pt. 1, sec. 25.

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Williams, Tennessee. Camino Real. New Directions, 1953, block 10.