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Eliot, T. S. Murder in the Cathedral. 1935, Chapter House, Canterbury Cathedral, pt. 1.

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Smith, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. London: Andrew Millar/Edinburgh: Alexander Kincaid and J. Bell, 1759, pt. 2, sect. 3, ch. 1.

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Smith, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments, edited by Ryan Patrick Hanley. Penguin, 2010, pt. 2, sect. 3, ch. 1.

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Aristophanes. Ἱππεῖς Hippeîs [The Knights]. 424 BC, Lenaia Festival, Athens, Greece.

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Aristophanes. "The Knights." The Birds and Other Plays, translated by Alan H. Sommerstein. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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Lord Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. London: John Murray, 1812-1818, canto 3, st. 8.

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Lord Byron. "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 3, st. 8.

No time like the present.

Delarivier Manley

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Manley, Mrs. The Lost Lover, or, the Jealous Husband. Mar. 1696, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 1.

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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches. A. C. McClurg & Co., 1903, ch. 1.

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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. The Souls of Black Folk, edited by Brent Hayes Edwards. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 1.

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Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915, pt. 4, ch. 8.

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Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Vintage, 1999, pt. 4, ch. 8.

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Wordsworth, William. Poems, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807.

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Wordsworth, William. "My heart leaps up when I behold." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Yeats, W. B. "A Song." The Wild Swans at Coole. Macmillan, 1919.

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Yeats, W. B. "A Song." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]. c. 55 BC, bk. 2, l. 1.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. The Nature of Things, translated by Alicia Stallings. Penguin Classics, 2007, bk. 2, l. 1.

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Menander. "Dis Exapaton [The Double Deceiver]." Plays and Fragments. c. 290 BC.

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Menander. "Twice a Swindler (Dis Exapaton)." Plays and Fragments, translated by Maurice Balme. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Even if strength fail, boldness at least will
Deserve praise: in great endeavors even to have
Had the will is enough.

Propertius

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Propertius. ἐλεγείᾱ [Elegies]. c. 40 BC, bk. 2, no. 10.

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Propertius. Elegies, translated by G. P. Goold. Harvard University Press, 1990, bk. 2, no. 10.

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Swift, Jonathan. "Various Thoughts, Moral and Diverting." Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. 1st ed. London: John Morphew, 1711.

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Swift, Jonathan. "Thoughts on Various Subjects (1711)." Jonathan Swift: The Essential Writings, edited by Claude Rawson and Ian Higgins. W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.

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Baldwin, James. "Fifth Avenue, Uptown; A Letter from Harlem." Esquire, July 1960.

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Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 16.

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Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 16.

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Plath, Sylvia [published as Victoria Lucas]. The Bell Jar. William Heinemann, 1963.

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Bacon, Francis "Of Wisdom for a Man's Self." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

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Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Wisdom for a Man's Self." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Paine, Thomas. Letter Addressed to the Addressers, on the Late Proclamation. London: H. D. Symonds and Thomas Clio Rickman, 1792.

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Paine, Thomas. "Letter Addressed to the Addressers on the Late Proclamation." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Lettres de Deux Amans, habitans d'une petite Ville au pied des Alpes [Letters from two lovers, living in a small town at the foot of the Alps]. Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey, 1761, pt. 6, letter 7.

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Julie, or the New Heloise, translated by Philip Stewart and Jean Vache. Dartmouth College Press, 1997, pt. 6, letter 7.