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Austen, Jane. "Catharine, or, The Bower." Volume the Third. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1951.

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Wells, H. G. "Lord of the Dynamos." Pall Mall Budget, 6 Sept. 1894.

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Wells, H. G. "Lord of the Dynamos." Selected Stories of H. G. Wells, edited by Ursula K. Le Guin. Modern Library, 2004.

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Wilde, Oscar. "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime." Lord Arthur Savile's Crime: The Portrait of Mr. W.H. and Other Stories. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1891.

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Wilde, Oscar. "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of this world justifies.

Rudyard Kipling

The Phantom Rickshaw

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Kipling, Rudyard. "The Phantom 'Rickshaw." The Phantom 'Rickshaw & other Eerie Tales. Prayagraj: A. H. Wheeler & Co., 1888.

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Kipling, Rudyard. "The Phantom 'Rickshaw." The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories. Dover Publications, 2013.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches." The Strand Magazine. London, 1892.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches." The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2010.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Nightingale and the Rose." The Happy Prince and Other Tales. London: Duckworth and Co., 1888.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Nightingale and the Rose." Oscar Wilde: Complete Short Fiction, edited by Ian Small. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax." London: The Strand Magazine/New York: The American Magazine, 1911.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax." His Last Bow: Some Later Reminiscences. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2012.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

James Thurber

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Thurber, James. "The Duchess and the Bugs." Lanterns & Lances. Harper & Brothers, 1961.