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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Die Leiden des jungen Werthers [The Sorrows of Young Werther]. Leipzig: Weygand'sche Buchhandlung, 1774.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "The Sorrows of Young Werther." The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings, translated by Catherin Hutter. Signet, 2013.

Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land.

Christina Georgina Rossetti

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Rossetti, Christina. "Remember." Goblin Market and Other Poems. London: Macmillan, 1862, I. 1.

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Rossetti, Christina. "Remember." The Complete Poems. Penguin Classics, 2001, I. 1.

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Clairvaux, St. Bernard. Letter to Magister Henry Murdach. c. 1150.

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Clairvaux, St. Bernard. "Letter CVI." Life and Works of Saint Bernard. Aeterna Press, 2015.

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Hippocrates. The Law. c. 4th century BC, pt. 4.

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Hippocrates. "Canon." Hippocratic Writings, translated by J. Chadwick and W. N. Mann, et al. Penguin Classics, 1984.

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Darwin, Charles. Letter to William Graham. 3 July 1881.

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Darwin, Charles. "To William Graham, 3 July 1881." The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, edited by Frederick Burkhardt and James A. Secord. Vol. 29: 1870. Cambridge University Press, 2022, no. 13230.

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Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. Boston: Thomas and Andrews/London: J. Johnson, 1792, ch. 3.

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Wollstonecraft, Mary. "A Vindication of the Rights of Women." A Vindication of the Rights of Women and A Vindication of the Rights of Men, edited by Janet Todd. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 3.

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Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869, ch. 2.

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Mill, John Stuart. "The Subjection of Women." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 2.

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Polybius. Ἱστορίαι [Histories]. c. 110 BC, bk. 18.

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Polybius. The Histories, translated by W. R. Paton. Vol. 5, Harvard University Press, 2012, bk. 18.

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Blake, William. "The Smile." Songs of Innocence and Experience, with Other Poems. London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1866.

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Blake, William. "The Smile." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

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Dryden, John. The Spanish Friar, or the Double Discovery. c. 1680, Duke's Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 2.

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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 2, sc. 2.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "De la Coustume et de ne Changer Aisement une Loy Receue [Of Custom; We Should No Easily Change a Law Received]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "On Habit: and On Never Easily Changing a Traditional Law." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. c. 429 BC, Theatre of Dionysus, Athens, Greece.

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Sophocles. "Oedipus Rex." The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Mariner Books, 2002.

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Moliere. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme [The Bourgeois Gentleman]. 14 Oct. 1670, The Court of Louis XIV, Château of Chambord, Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, France, act 2, sc. 4.

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Moliere. "The Bourgeois Gentleman." Tartuffe and The Bourgeois Gentleman. Dover Publications, 1998, act 2, sc. 4.

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Lessing, Doris. The Golden Notebook. Michael Joseph, 1962.

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Horace. Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters]. 20 BC, bk. 1, epistle 1.

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Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1, epistle 1.

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Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. London: John Danter, 1597, act 3, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Romeo and Juliet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 1.

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Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. Boston: Thomas and Andrews/London: J. Johnson, 1792, ch. 4.

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Wollstonecraft, Mary. "A Vindication of the Rights of Women." A Vindication of the Rights of Women and A Vindication of the Rights of Men, edited by Janet Todd. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 4.

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Yeats, William Butler. "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven." The Wind Among Reeds. New York and London: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1899.

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Yeats, William Butler. "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "De la Ressemblance des Enfants aux Peres [Of the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "On the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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Paine, Thomas [published anonymously]. Common Sense. Philadelphia: R. Bell, sect. 4.

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Paine, Thomas. "Common Sense." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009, sect. 4.