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All good things must come to an end.

Henry M. Field

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Field, Henry M. Summer Pictures: From Copenhagen to Venice. Sheldon and Company, 1859, ch. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. Titus Andronicus. Sussex's Men, 1594, The Rose, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 2.

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

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Baudelaire, Charles. Mon Coeur mis a nu [My Naked Heart]. Paris, 1887, no. 15.

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Baudelaire, Charles. "My Heart Laid Bare." Late Fragments: Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed, translated by Richard Sieburth. Yale University Press, 2022, no. 15.

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Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. Macmillan Publishers, 1936, pt. 2, ch. 9.

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Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. Scribner, 2007, pt. 2, ch. 9.

Marriage must ceaselessly combat a monster that devours everything: habit.

Honoré de Balzac

Physiologie du Mariage

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De Balzac, Honoré. Physiologie du mariage [Physiology of Marriage]. Paris, 1829, pt. 1, meditation 5, no. 47.

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Sand, George. Letter to Madame Juliette Lamber. 7 Apr. 1868.

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Hemingway, Ernest. "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place." Scribner's Magazine, Mar. 1933.

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Hemingway, Ernest. "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place." The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. Scribner, 1998.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

Alexander Pope

The Rape of the Lock

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Pope, Alexander. The Rape of the Lock. London: Bernard Lintott, 1714, canto 3, l. 21.

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Pope, Alexander. "The Rape of the Lock." Alexander Pope: The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, canto 3, I. 21.

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Carré, John le. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Victor Gollancz & Pan, 1963, ch. 2.

I worry about if and when I'll ever find the right man, if I'll ever be able to exhale. The more I try not to think about it, the more I think about it.

Terry McMillan

Waiting to Exhale

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McMillan, Terry. Waiting to Exhale. The Viking Press, 1992.

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Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869, ch. 1.

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Mill, John Stuart. "The Subjection of Women." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 1.

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Russell, Bertrand. Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits. George, Allen and Unwin/Simon & Schuster, 1948, pt. 2, ch. 1.

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Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day. Faber & Faber, 1989.

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Lawrence, D.H. Studies in Classic American Literature. Thomas Seltzer, 1923, ch. 5.

Night hath a thousand eyes.

John Lyly

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Lyly, John. The Maydes Metamorphosis. Children of Paul's, 1600, Paul's Cathedral, England, UK, act 3, sc. 1.

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Wodehouse, P. G. The Code of the Woosters. Herbert Jenkins, 1938. Originally published in The Saturday Evening Post, 16 July 1938 - 3 Sept. 1938.

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Paglia, Camille. Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson. Yale University Press, 1990, ch. 1.

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Mead, Margaret. "Warfare is Only an Invention--Not a Biological Necessity." Asia, Aug. 1940.

Any port in a storm.

John Cleland

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Cleland, John. Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. London: G. Fenton, 1748-1749.

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Cleland, John. Fanny Hill or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. Modern Library, 2001.