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Dryden, John. "The Spanish Fryar." The Works of John Dryden, edited by Vinton A. Dearing and Alan Roper. Vol. 14, University of California Press, 1992, act 4, sc. 1.

Kipling, Rudyard. "Surgeons and the Soul." A Book of Words. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "To Jane. The Invitation." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 21.

Burke, Edmund. "A Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol on the Affairs of America." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

Machiavelli, Niccolo. Discourses on Livy, translated by Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 1, ch. 3.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Day Is Done." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, st. 11.

Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. W. W. Norton & Co., 2015, bk. 2, ch. 7.

Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Suspicion." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, translated by Michael Henry Heim. Harper Perennial, 2009.

Ibsen, Henrik. "Peer Gynt." Peer Gynt and Brand, translated by Geoffrey Hill. Penguin Classics, 2017, act 4, sc. 1.

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

De Quincey, Thomas. "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater." Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings, edited by Robert Morrison. Oxford University Press, 2013.