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Plutarch. "Περὶ ἀδολεσχίας [On Talkativeness]." Ἠθικά Ethika [Moralia]. c. 100 AD.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Quoted in "Das Gottliche [The Divine]." Uber die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen ad den Herrn Moses Mendelssohn [On the Teachings of Spinoza in Letters to Moses Mendelssohn], written by Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi. Breslau: Gottlieb Lowe, 1785, pp. 2-4.

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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "The Godlike." The Essential Goethe, edited and translated by Matthew Bell. Princeton University Press, 2018.

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Ricardo, David. On Protection to Agriculture. London: John Murray, 1822.

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Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 24.

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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. 24.

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

Daniel Defoe

Moll Flanders

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Defoe, Daniel, [published anonymously]. Moll Flanders. London: William Rufus Chetwood, 1722.

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Defoe, Daniel. Moll Flanders: A Norton Critical Edition, edited by Albert J. Rivero. W.W. Norton & Company, 2003.

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Lewis, C.S. The Screwtape Letters. Geoffrey Bles, 1942, letter 12.

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.

Stephen Chbosky

The Perks of Being a Walflower

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Chbosky, Stephen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Pocket Books, 1999.

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Blake, William. Poem written in his notebook. c. 1792.

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Blake, William. "Never Pain to Tell Thy Love." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

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Voltaire. Candide, ou l'Optimisme [Candide: or, All for the Best]. Geneva: Gabriel Cramer, 1759, ch. 30.

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Voltaire. Candide, edited by Nicholas Cronk. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016, ch. 30.

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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Записки из Мёртвого дома [The House of the Dead]." Vremya, 1860-1862.

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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The House of the Dead, translated by David McDuff. Penguin Classics, 1986.

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

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Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest. Little, Brown and Company, 1996.

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Hesiod. Θεογονία [Theogony]. c. 700 BC, l. 120-121.

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Hesiod. "Theogony." Theogony and Works and Days, translated by M. L. West. Oxford University Press, 2009, l. 120-121.

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Martial. Epigrammata [Epigrams]. c. 102 AD, bk. 10, no. 23.

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Martial. Epigrams, translated by Gideon Nisbet. Oxford University Press, 2015, bk. 10, no. 34.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Sherlock Holmes

A Case of Identity

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Case of Identity." The Strand Magazine. London: Sept. 1891.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Case of Identity." The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2010.

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Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1937, ch. 1.

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Baudelaire, Charles. "Éloge du maquillage [In Praise of Makeup]." The Painter of Modern Life. Paris: Le Figaro, c. 1863.

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Baudelaire, Charles. "The Painter of Modern Life." Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Literature, translated by P. E. Charvet. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 20.

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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. 20.

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Saint Jerome. Letter to Heliodorus. c. 396, sect. 16.

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Saint Jerome. "Letter LX." Select Letters of Saint Jerome. Aeterna Press, 2015, sect. 16.

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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.