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Whitehead, Alfred North. Adventures of Ideas. The Macmillan Company/Simon and Schuster, 1933, ch. 19, sec. 1.

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Beckett, Samuel. Proust. Chatto and Windus, 1930.

A man always has two reasons for what he does-a good one, and the real one.

J.P. Morgan

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Morgan, John Pierpont. Quoted in Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship, written by Owen Wister. Macmillan, 1930.

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Gershwin, Ira. "Nice Work If You Can Get It." Damsel in Distress. Composed by George Gershwin. Performed by Fred Astaire and The Stafford Sisters. RKO Radio Pictures, 1937.

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Russell, Bertrand. The Conquest of Happiness. Liveright, 1930, ch. 9.

We'll meet again,
Don't know where, don't know when,
But I know we'll meet again some sunny day.

Vera Lynn

We'll Meet Again

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Parker, Ross and Hughie Charles. We'll Meet Again. Performed by Vera Lynn. Michael Ross Limited, 1939.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Stubby Currence

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Anonymous. Quoted in Oklahoma City Star. 1934.

After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.

A.S.W. Rosenbach

A Book Hunter's Holiday

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Rosenbach, A. S. W. A Book Hunter's Holiday. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1936.

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Smith, Logan Pearsall. Last Words. Constable & Company, 1933.

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Smith, Logan Pearsall. "Myself." Afterthoughts. Constable & Company, 1931.

A cigarette that bears a lipstick's traces,
An airline ticket to romantic places;
And still my heart has wings
These foolish things
Remind me of you.

Holt Marvell

These Foolish Things Remind Me of You

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Maschwitz, Eric (published as Holt Marvell). "These Foolish Things Remind Me of You." Composed by Jack Strachey. Boosey & Hawkes, 1935.

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Chamberlain, Neville. Radio address. 3 Sept. 1939, Cabinet Room, 10 Downing Street, London, England, UK.

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Maugham, William Somerset. Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard. William Heinemann/Garden City Publishing Co., 1930.

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Maugham, William Somerset. Cakes and Ale. Vintage, 2000.

We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

John Buchan

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Buchan, John. Address to the people of Canada on the coronation of George VI. 12 May 1937, Canada.

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Planck, Max. The Philosophy of Physics. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1936.

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Hand, Learned. Speech to the Yale Law graduates. Graduation cermony. 17 June 1931, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, USA.

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Chamberlain, Neville. Radio broadcast referring to the Czechoslovakia crisis. 27 Sept. 1938, 10 Downing Street, London, England, UK.

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Mumford, Lewis. Technics and Civilization. Harcourt, Brace and Company/Routledge, 1934, ch. 1, sect. 2.

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Hand, Learned. US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Helvering v. Gregory, 69 F.2d 809 (2d Cir. 1934).

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Jeans, James. The Mysterious Universe. Cambridge University Press/Macmillan, 1930, ch. 1.