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Angelou, Maya. "Oprah Talks to Maya Angelou." O, The Oprah Magazine, May 2013.

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Virgil. Aenē̆is [Aeneid]. 19 BC, bk. 2.

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Virgil. The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2010, bk. 2.

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A Kempis, Thomas. De Imitatione Christi [The Imitation of Christ]. c. 1427.

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A Kempis, Thomas. The Complete Imitation of Christ, translated by John Julian. Paraclete Press, 2012.

O tempora! O mores!

Cicero

Against Catiline

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. "Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habit." 63 BC, Rome Senate, Rome, Italy.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Cicero: In Catilinam I-IV, edited by J.F. Stout. Bristol Classical Press, 2009, Oratio 1.

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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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Milton, John. Paradise Lost. London: Samuel Simmons, 1667, bk. 5, I. 574.

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"Paradise Lost." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 5, I. 574.

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Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. London: Chapman and Hall, Mar. 1838, issue 1, ch. 3.

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Dickens, Charles. Nicholas Nickleby, edited by Mark Ford. Penguin, 1999, ch. 3.

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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.

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Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 29.

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Twain, Mark. "Following the Equator." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 29.

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Austen, Jane, [published anonymously]. Sense and Sensibility. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Egerton, 1811, ch. 12.

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Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 12.

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Shakespeare, William. The Merry Wives of Windsor. London: Arthur Johnson, 1602, act 2, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Merry Wives of Windsor." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 1.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Epistles ad Familiares [Letters to Friends]. c. 46 BC, bk. 4, no. 8.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Philadelphia, July 1890, ch. 1.

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Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 1.

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Pliny the Elder. Historia Naturalis [Natural History]. 77 AD, bk. 8.

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Pliny the Elder. Natural History: A Selection, translated by John F. Healy. Penguin Classics, 1991, bk. 8.

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Plutarch. "Γαμικὰ παραγγέλματα [Advice to Bride and Groom]." Ἠθικά Ethika [The Moralia]. c. 100 AD.

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Plutarch. "Advice to Bride and Groom." Moralia, translated by Frank Cole Babbitt. Vol. 2, Harvard University Press, 1928.

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Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. George Allen & Unwin, 1954, ch. 2.

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Shakespeare, William and John Fletcher. Henry VIII. King's Men, 1613, Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Henry the Eighth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblattet al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 1.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]. c. 55 BC, bk. 2, l. 54.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. The Nature of Things, translated by Alicia Stallings. Penguin Classics, 2007, bk. 2, l. 54.

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Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 13.

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Twain, Mark. "Following the Equator." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 13.

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Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species. London: John Murray, 1859, ch. 14.

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Darwin, Charles. The Origin of the Species, edited by William Bynum. Penguin, 2009, ch. 14.