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Picasso, Pablo. Quoted in Life with Picasso, written by Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake. McGraw-Hill, 1964, pt. 2.

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Saint Jerome. Letter to Heliodorus. c. 396, sect. 16.

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Saint Jerome. "Letter LX." Select Letters of Saint Jerome. Aeterna Press, 2015, sect. 16.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]. c. 55 BC, bk. 2, l. 1.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. The Nature of Things, translated by Alicia Stallings. Penguin Classics, 2007, bk. 2, l. 1.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Guy de Maupassant. 16 Feb. 1880.

There was no one who wept for any death, for all awaited death.

Agnolo di Tura del Grosso

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Di Tura del Grosso, Agnolo. Cronica Maggiore. c. 1350.

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Di Tura del Grosso, Agnolo. "Cronica Maggiore." Quoted in The Black Death: A Turning Point in History?, written by William M. Bowsky. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971.

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Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 1.

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Democritus. Tetralogies of Thrasyllus. c. 420 BC, Fr. 180.

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Democritus. Quoted in Ancilla to Pre-Socratic Philosophers, written and translated by Kathleen Freeman. Harvard University Press, 1983.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry by James Boswell. 31 Mar. 1772.

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

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Shakespeare, William. "The Life and Death of King John." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, 1623, act 2, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "King John." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Macbeth." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 5, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Macbeth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 1.

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Voltaire. Candide, ou l'Optimisme [Candide: or, All for the Best]. Geneva: Gabriel Cramer, 1759, ch. 20.

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Voltaire. Candide, edited by Nicholas Cronk. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016, ch. 20.

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Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph. Qu'est-ce que la propriété? Recherche sur le principe du droit et du gouvernement [What Is Property? Or, an Inquiry into the Principle of Right and Government]. Paris: 1840, preface.

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Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph. Proudhon: What is Property?, edited and translated by Donald R. Kelley and Bonnie G. Smith. Cambridge University Press, 1994, preface.

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Presenting to the House of Commons a Plan for the Better Security of the Independence of Parliament and the Economical Reformation of the Civil and Other Establishments." 11 Feb. 1780, Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London, England, UK.

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Economical Reform." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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Bacon, Francis. The Advancement of Learning. London: Oxford: Rob Youn and Ed Forrest, 1605, bk. 2, ch. 7, sect. 5.

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Bacon, Francis. "The Advancement of Learning." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 2, ch. 7, sect. 5.

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Heywood, John. The Proverbs of John Heywood. London: George Bell and Sons, 1874, pt. 2, ch. 4.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 4, sc. 5.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 5.

Kill them all; for the Lord knoweth them that are His.

Arnaud Amalric

Quoted in The Dialogue on Miracles

Statement prior to the massacre at Beziers, France on July 22, 1209, as part of the Albigensian Crusade.

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Arnaud Amalric. Quoted in The Dialogue on Miracles, written by Caesarius of Hesterbach. c. 1223.

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Arnaud Amalric. Quoted in The Dialogue on Miracles, written by Caesarius of Hesterbach, translated by Ronald Pepin. Vol. 1, Liturgical Press, 2023.

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Arnold, Matthew. "Sohrab and Rustum." Poems: A New Edition. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853.

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Arnold, Matthew. "Sohrab and Rustum." Dover Beach and Other Poems. Dover Publications, 2012.

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Shakespeare, William. Inscription on his grave. 23 April 1616. Holy Trinity Church, Stratford upon Avon, England, UK.

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Shakespeare, William. Inscription on his grave. 23 April 1616. Holy Trinity Church, Stratford upon Avon, England, UK.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 20 Mar. 1776.

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