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Hughes, Langston. "I, Too." The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 1926, I. 1.

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Hughes, Langston. The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015, epilogue.

The average man doesn't want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.

H.L. Mencken

Notes on Democracy

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Mencken, H. L. Notes on Democracy. Alfred A. Knopf, 1926, pt. 3, ch. 1.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Beatrice Potter Webb

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Webb, Beatrice Potter. My Apprenticeship. Cambridge University Press, 1979, ch. 2. Originally published by Longmans, Green and Co., 1926, ch. 2.

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Lawrence, T. E. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. 1926, introductory chapter.

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Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926, bk. 1, ch. 2.

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LaFollette, Suzanne. Concerning Women. Albert & Charles Boni, 1926, ch. 1.

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Gide, Andre. Les Faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters]. Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1925, pt. 3, ch. 16.

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Gide, Andre. The Counterfeiters, translated by Dorothy Bussy. Penguin Books, 1990, pt. 3, ch. 16.

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Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926, bk. 3, ch. 19.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "The Rich Boy." Redbook, Jan. - Feb. 1926.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "The Rich Boy." F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920-1926, edited by James L. W. West, III. Library of America, 2022.

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Hughes, Langston. "Negro." The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 1926, I. 1.

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Hughes, Langston. "Proem." The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015, I. 1.

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Chesterton, G.K. "Anti-Religious Thought in the Eighteenth Century." An Outline of Christianity; The Story of Our Civilization. Vol. 4. Christianity and Modern Thought. The Waverley Book Co., 1926, pt. 3.

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Brittain, Vera. "Married Love." Poems of the War and After. Victor Gollancz, 1934.

A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds.

Archibald MacLeish

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MacLeish, Archibald. "Ars Poetica." Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, June 1926.

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MacLeish, Archibald. "Ars Poetica." From Collected Poems 1917 to 1982. Mariner Books, 1985.

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Keynes, John Maynard. The End Of Laissez-faire. Hogarth Press, 1926, pt. 3.

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Keynes, John Maynard. "The End of Laissaz-faire." The Essential Keynes. Penguin, edited by Robert Skidelsky, 2016, ch. 3.

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Lawrence, D.H. The Plumed Serpent. Martin Secker, 1926, ch. 2.

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Fowler, H. W. "Split infinitive." A Dictionary of Modern English Usage. Oxford University Press, 1926.

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Eddington, Arthur. Stars and Atoms. The Clarendon Press, 1938, lecture 1. Originally a discourse called "Stars and Atoms." Meeting of the British Association. Aug. 1926, Oxford, England, UK.

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LaFollette, Suzanne. Concerning Women. Albert & Charles Boni, 1926, ch. 1.