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He was not of an age but for all time!

Ben Jonson

On Shakespeare.

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Jonson, Ben. "To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 17 Apr. 1776.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Critic as Artist." Intentions. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1891, pt. 2.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Critic as Artist Part II." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Keats, John. "Hyperion: A Fragment." Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems. London: Taylor and Hessey, 1820, bk. 1, I. 353.

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Keats, John. "Hyperion: A Fragment." John Keats: The Major Works, edited by Elizabeth Cook. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 1, I. 353.

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Schiller, Friedrich. Don Karlos [Don Carlos]. 1787, Hamburg, Germany, act 4, sc. 4.

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Schiller, Friedrich. "Don Carlos." Don Carlos and Mary Stewart, translated by Hilary Collier Sy-Quia. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 4, sc. 4.

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Ibsen, Henry. "Rimbrev til Fru Heiberg [Rhyme letter to Mrs. Heiberg]." Digte. Copenhagen, 1871.

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Bradbury, Ray. "Ray Bradbury, The Art of Fiction No. 203." Interviewed by Sam Weller. Paris Review, Spring 2010.

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Wollstonecraft, Mary. "Matrimony." Thoughts on the Education of Daughters. London: Joseph Johnson, 1787.

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Wollstonecraft, Mary. "Thoughts on the Education of Daughters." The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, edited by Marilyn Butler and Janet Todd. Vol. 4, Routledge, 2020.

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Voltaire. Candide, ou l'Optimisme [Candide: or, All for the Best]. Geneva: Gabriel Cramer, 1759, ch. 21.

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Voltaire. Candide, edited by Nicholas Cronk. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016, ch. 21.

The half-life of love is forever.

Junot Diaz

This is How You Lose Her

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Diaz, Junot. "The Cheater's Guide to Love." This Is How You Lose Her. Riverhead Books, 2012.

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Burke, Edmund. Two Letters to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France. London: F. and C. Rivington, 1796, letter 1.

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Burke, Edmund. Letters on a Regicide Peace." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009, letter 1.

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Eliot, George. Impressions of Theophrastus Such. Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1879, ch. 4.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "Apologie de Raimond Sebond [Apology for Raimond Sebond]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "An Apology for Raymond Sebond." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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Burns, Robert. Man was made to Mourn: A Dirge. 1784, st. 11.

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Burns, Robert. "Man Was Made to Mourn. A Dirge." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994, I. 11.

Yes, injured Woman! rise, assert thy right!

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

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Barbauld, Anna Laetitia. "The Rights of Woman." The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld With a Memoir by Lucy Aikin. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825.

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Barbauld, Anna Laetitia. "The Rights of Woman." The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: With a Memoir, edited by Lucy Aikin. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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Hurston, Zora Neale. Tell My Horse. J.B. Lippincott Co., 1938, ch. 15.

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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 4, 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 4, sc. 1.

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Twain, Mark. Letter to Lucius Fairchild. 28 Apr. 1880.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Mutability." Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude: And Other Poems. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1816, I. 16.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Mutability." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 16.

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Mill, John Stuart. "Utilitarianism." Fraser's Magazine, 1861, ch. 3.

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Mill, John Stuart. "Utilitarianism." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 3.