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Post, Emily. Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home. Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1922.

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Wittgenstein, Ludwig. "Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung [Logical-Philosophical Treatise]." Annalen der Naturphilosophie [Annales of Natural Philosophy], 1921.

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Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, translated by Michael Beaney. Oxford University Press, 2023.

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Eliot, T. S. "The Waste Land." The Criterion, Oct. 1922, pt. 1.

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Eliot, T. S. "The Waste Land." The Waste Land and Other Poems. Vintage, 2021, pt. 1.

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Cather, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop. Alfred A. Knopf, 1927, bk. 9, ch. 6.

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Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, 1922, bk. 1, ch. 3.

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Joyce, James. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes, edited by Catherine Flynn. Cambridge University Press, 2022, ch. 3.

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Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Hogarth Press/Harcourt Brace & Co., 1929, ch. 1.

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Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Mariner Books, 2005, ch. 1.

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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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Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, 1922, bk. 2, ch. 9.

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Joyce, James. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes, edited by Catherine Flynn. Cambridge University Press, 2022, ch. 9.

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Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, 1922, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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Joyce, James. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes, edited by Catherine Flynn. Cambridge University Press, 2022, ch. 1.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Bernice Bobs Her Hair." Saturday Evening Post, May 1920.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Bernice Bobs Her Hair." F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels and Stories 1920-1922, edited by Jackson Bryer. Library of America, 2000.

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Earhart, Amelia. Quoted in "Courage." Who is Amelia Earhart?, written by Marion Perkins. Survey Graphic, 1 July 1928.

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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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Mussolini, Benito. Editorial. Il Popolo d'Italia, 1920.

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Yeats, William Butler. "The Tower." The Tower. Macmillan & Company, 1928.

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Yeats, William Butler. "The Tower." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Franz Kappus. 17 Feb. 1903.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters to a Young Poet, translated by Charlie Louth. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Kipling, Rudyard. "Surgeons and the Soul." The Royal College of Surgeons Annual Dinner. 14 Feb. 1923, London, England, UK.

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

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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. "The Souls of White Folk." Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil. Harcourt, Brace And Howe, 1920.

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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. "The Souls of White Folk." Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Oxford University Press, 2014.

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Proust, Marcel. Le Temps retrouvé [Time Regained]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

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Proust, Marcel. Finding Time Again, edited and translated by Ian Patterson. Penguin Classics, 2023.

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Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Hogarth Press/Harcourt Brace & Co., 1929, ch. 4.

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Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Mariner Books, 2005, ch. 4.

To see your enemy and know him is part of the complete education of man.

Marcus Garvey

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Garvey, Marcus. Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey. Vol. 1, The Universal Publishing House, 1923, ch. 2.