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Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, satire 6.

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Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 6.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary: Moeurs de Province [Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners]. Revue de Paris, 1 Oct. 1856 - 15 Dec. 1856. Serial.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary, edited and translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Classics, 2011, pt. 3, ch. 6.

A woman's vows I write upon the wave.

Sophocles

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Sophocles. Unnamed drama. 5th century BC, fragment 694.

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Washington, Booker T. The Story of My Life and Work. W. H. Ferguson Co., 1900.

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Seneca the Younger. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium [Moral Letters to Lucilius]. c. 65 AD.

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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Letters on Ethics, translated by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long. University of Chicago Press, 2017.

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Moliere. Le Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur [Tartuffe or the Impostor]. 5 Feb. 1669, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris, France, act 4, sc. 3.

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Moliere. "Tartuffe." The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays, translated by Maya Slater. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 4, sc. 3.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case." Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1886.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 10.

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Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 5, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 1.

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Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

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Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

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Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

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Shakespeare, William. Troilus and Cressida. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1603, The Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Troilus and Cressida." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.

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Martial. Epigrammata [Epigrams]. c. 102 AD, bk. 7, no. 73.

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Martial. Epigrams, translated by Gideon Nisbet. Oxford University Press, 2015, bk. 7, no. 73.

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Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Schocken Books, 1951, pt. 3, ch. 12, sec. 3.

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Orwell, George. Down and Out in Paris and London. Victor Gollancz, 1933, ch. 30.

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Pascal, Blaise. Pensées [Thoughts]. Paris: Chez G. Desprez, 1670, no. 139.

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Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 139.

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 25. Originally from Notebook, c. 1896.

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Aristophanes. Ὄρνιθες [Birds]. c. 414, Dionysia, Athens, Greece.

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Aristophanes. "Birds." Aristophanes: The Complete Plays, translated by Paul Roche. New American Library/Berkley, 2005.

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Blake, William. Quoted in Aphorisms on Man, written by Johann Caspar Lavater. London: J. Johnson, 1788, no. 93, annotation.

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Blake, William. "Annotations to Lavater's Aphorisms on Man." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. University of California Press, 2008.

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Paine, Thomas. The Age of Reason, Part I. London: Joel Barlow, 1794.

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Paine, Thomas. "The Age of Reason, Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (1794)." Selected Writings of Thomas Paine, edited by Ian Shapiro and Jane E. Calvert. Yale University Press, 2014.