In that part of the book of my memory, before which very little is written, there is a heading that reads "Here begins a new life".

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Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by John Paul Riquelme. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, ch. 2.

Magna Carta, translated by David A. Carpenter. Penguin Classics, 2015, clause 40.

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Machiavelli, Nicolò. The Prince, translated by Peter Bondanella. Oxford University Press, 2005.