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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, introduction.

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

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

Hugo, Victor. "The King Amuses Himself." Three Plays by Victor Hugo, translated by Camilla Crosland and Frederick L. Slous. Washington Square Press, 1964.

Proust, Marcel. The Fugitive, edited and translated by Peter Collier. Penguin Classics, 2021.

Delacroix, Eugène. The Journal of Eugène Delacroix: A Selection, translated by Lucy Norton, edited by Hubert Wellington. Phaidon, 1995.

Verne, Jules. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, edited and translated by David Coward. Penguin Classics, 2017.

Zola, Émile. The Ladies' Paradise. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Proust, Marcel. Swann's Way, edited and translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Classics, 2004.

Stendhal. The Red and the Black, translated by Catherine Slater. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2, ch. 22.

Matisse, Henri. Quoted in Matisse the Master, written by Hilary Spurling. Vol. 2, Penguin Classics, 2006.

La Fayette, Madame de. The Princesse de Cleves, translated by Terence Cave. Oxford University Press, 1992, pt. 4.