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Burns, Robert. "Tam O'Shanter." Edinburgh Herald/Edinburgh Magazine, Mar. 1791.

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Burns, Robert. "Tam O'Shanter." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited by Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994.

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Wilde, Oscar. An Ideal Husband. 1895, Haymarket Theatre, London, England, UK, act 4.

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Wilde, Oscar. "An Ideal Husband." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 4.

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Donne, John. A sermon preached at Whitehall. 8 Mar. 1622, Whitehall, Westminster, Central London, England, UK.

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Donne, John. "From a sermon preached at Whitehall (8 March 1622)." John Donne: The Major Works: Including Songs and Sonnets and Sermons, edited by John Carey. Oxford University Press, 2009.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Pliny the Younger

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Pliny the Younger. Epistulae [Letters]. c. 1st century, bk. 2, no. 15.

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Pliny the Younger. Complete Letters, translated by P. G. Walsh. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2, no. 15.

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Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. London: James Dodsley, 1790.

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Burke, Edmund. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "De l'Amitie [Of Friendship]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "On Affectionate Relationships." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

Color is the place where our brain meets the universe.

Paul Cézanne

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Cézanne, Paul. Cézanne: A Memoir with Conversations, 1897 - 1906. Thames and Hudson, 1991. Originally stated during a conversion with Joachim Gasquet, c. 1906.

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Solon. Quoted in "Solon." Parallel Lives by Plutarch. c. 2nd century BC, ch. 3.

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Solon. Quoted in "Solon." Greek Lives, written by Plutarch, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. London: James Dodsley, 1790.

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Burke, Edmund. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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Sartre, Jean-Paul. Les Mouches [The Flies]. 3 June 1943, Théâtre de la Cité, Paris, France, act 3, sc. 2.

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Sartre, Jean-Paul. "The Flies." No Exit and Three Other Plays, translated by Stuart Gilbert. Vintage, 1989, act 3, sc. 2.

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Disraeli, Benjamin. Speech about the Representation of the People. House of Commons. 28 Feb. 1859, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

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Horace. Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters]. 20 BC, bk. 1, epistle 12.

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Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1, epistle 12.

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Butler, Samuel. Hudibras: The second part. London: John Martyn & James Allestry, 1664, part 2, canto 2, l. 263.

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Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 1, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1776, ch. 14.

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Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 1. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 14.

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Locke, John. "Second Treatise of Civil Government." Two Treatises of Government. London: Awnsham Churchill, 1690, introduction.

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Locke, John. Second Treatise of Civil Government, edited by C. B. Macpherson. Hackett Publishing Company, 1980, introduction.

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Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 3, no. 6.

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Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 3, no. 6.

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Kipling, Rudyard. "The Female of the Species." Morning Post, 20 Oct. 1911.

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Kipling, Rudyard. "The Female of the Species." Rudyard Kipling: Stories and Poems, edited by Daniel Karlin. Oxford University Press, 2015.

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Euripides. Ἱππόλυτος [Hippolytus]. 428 BC, City Dionysia festival, Athens, Greece.

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Euripides. "Hippolytus." Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus, edited and translated by Richard Lattimore, et. al. University of Chicago Press, 2013.

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Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. London: James Dodsley, 1790.

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Burke, Edmund. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present. London: Chapman and Hall, 1843, bk. 2, ch. 9.

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Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present, edited by David R. Sorensen and Brent E. Kinser. Oxford University Press, 2023, bk. 2, ch. 9.