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Bonaparte, Napoleon. Quoted in Histoire de I'Ambassade dans le grand-duche de Varsovie en 1812 [History of the Embassy in the Grand Duchy of Warsaw in 1812], written by M. de Pradt. Paris: Pilet, 1815.

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. De La Democratie en Amerique [Democracy in America]. Vol. 1, London: Saunders and Otley, 1835, ch. 14, pt. 1.

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II, translated by Henry Reeve. Bantam Classics, 2000, vol. 1, ch. 14, pt. 1.

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Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables. Vol. 3, Bruxelles: A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie, 1862, bk. 4, ch. 4.

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Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables. Wordsworth Editions, 1994, pt. 3, bk. 4, ch. 4.

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Pascal, Blaise. Pensées [Thoughts]. Paris: Chez G. Desprez, 1670, no. 211.

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Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 211.

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Pascal, Blaise. Pensées [Thoughts]. Paris: Chez G. Desprez, 1670, no. 257

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Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 257.

All for one, one for all.

Alexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers

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Dumas, Alexandre. Les Trois Mousquetaires [The Three Musketeers]. Le Siecle, Mar. 1844 -July 1844. Serial.

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Dumas, Alexandre. The Three Musketeers, translated by Richard Pevear. Penguin, 2014, ch. 9.

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Pascal, Blaise. Pensées [Thoughts]. Paris: Chez G. Desprez, 1670, no. 556.

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Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 556.

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Voltaire. Candide, ou l'Optimisme [Candide: or, All for the Best]. Geneva: Gabriel Cramer, 1759, ch. 30.

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Voltaire. Candide, edited by Nicholas Cronk. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016, ch. 30.

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. De La Democratie en Amerique [Democracy in America]. Vol. 2, London: Saunders and Otley, 1840, sect. 1, ch. 5.

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II, translated by Henry Reeve. Bantam Classics, 2000, vol. 2, sect. 1, ch. 5.

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Pascal, Blaise. Pensées [Thoughts]. Paris: Chez G. Desprez, 1670, no. 267.

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Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 267.

Think of it, soldiers; from the summit of these pyramids, forty centuries look down upon you.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Speech to the French army in Egypt on July 21st, 1798, before the Battle of the Pyramids.

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Bonaparte, Napoleon. Quoted in Memoirs of the History of France During the Reign of Napoleon, written by Gaspard Gourgaud. Vol. 2, London: Henry Colburn, 1823. Originally stated during a speech prior to the Battle of the Pyramids [Battle of Embabeh]. 21 July 1798, Embabeh, Egypt.

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Voltaire. Candide, ou l'Optimisme [Candide: or, All for the Best]. Geneva: Gabriel Cramer, 1759, ch. 1.

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Voltaire. Candide, edited by Nicholas Cronk. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016, ch. 1.

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De Balzac, Honoré. La Comédie Humaine. Paris: Furne, 1842, Avec-Propos [preface].

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De Balzac, Honoré. The Human Comedy: At the Sign of the Cat & Racket and Other Works, translated by Clara Bell. Vol. 1, Houmena Press, 2008, Avec-Propos [preface].

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Proust, Marcel. À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs [In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower]. Paris: Gallimard, 1919.

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Proust, Marcel. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, translated and edited by James Grieve. Penguin Classics, 2005.

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Voltaire. "Deuxieme Discours: De La Liberte [Second Discourse: On Liberty]." Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme [Seven Discourses on Man]. Paris, 1738, no. 2.

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Pascal, Blaise. Pensées [Thoughts]. Paris: Chez G. Desprez, 1670, no. 23.

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Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 23.

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Voltaire. Letter to Frederick William. 28 Nov. 1770.

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Camus, Albert. Le Mythe de Sisyphe [The Myth of Sisyphus]. Éditions Gallimard, 1942.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary: Moeurs de Province [Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners]. Revue de Paris, 1 Oct. 1856 - 15 Dec. 1856. Serial.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary, edited and translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Classics, 2011, pt. 2, ch. 12.

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Pascal, Blaise. Pensées [Thoughts]. Paris: Chez G. Desprez, 1670, no. 347.

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Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 347.