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Nightingale, Florence. "Cassandra." Cassandra: Florence Nightingale's Angry Outcry Against the Forced Idleness of Victorian Women. The Feminist Press, 1993.

Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron, translated by Wayne A. Rebhorn. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.

Shakespeare, William. "Venus and Adonis." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.

Pericles. Quoted in The Peloponnesian War, translated by Martin Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2.

Xenophanes. "Xenophanes of Colophon." The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists. Oxford World Classics, 2009, F16 - DK22 B110.

Keats, John. Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 22 Nov. 1817." John Keats Selected Letters, edited by John Barnard. Penguin Classics, 2015.

Kipling, Rudyard. "The Elephant's Child." The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling. Wordsworth Editions, 1999.

Carlyle, Thomas. "Goethe's Helena." The Works of Thomas Carlyle, edited by Henry Duff Traill. Vol. 26, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Kierkegaard, Soren. The Sickness unto Death, translated by Alastair Hannay. Penguin Classics, 1989.

Milton, John. "Areopagitica." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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

Pope, Alexander. "To Gay, Twickenham, Oct. 16, 1727." Alexander Pope: Selected Letters, edited by Howard Erksine-Hill. Oxford University Press, 2000, no. 16.

Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 3.

Locke, John. Second Treatise of Civil Government, edited by C. B. Macpherson. Hackett Publishing Company, 1980, ch. 8, sect. 95.

Johnson, Samuel. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Penguin Classics, 2007, ch. 30.