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Saint Cyprian. De Ecclesiae Catholicae Unitate. c. 251, ch. 6.

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Whitman, Walt. Democratic Vistas. Washington D.C.: J. S. Redfield, 1871.

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Whitman, Walt. Democratic Vistas, edited by Ed Folsom. University Of Iowa Press, 2009.

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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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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil. London: Andrew Crooke, 1651, pt. 1, ch. 11.

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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan, edited by Christopher Brooke. Penguin Classics, 2017, pt. 1, ch. 11.

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique [On the Social Contract or Principles of Political Law]. Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey, 1762, bk. 3, ch. 4.

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. "Of the Social Contract." Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings, translated by Quintin Hoare. Penguin Classics, 2012, bk. 3, ch. 4.

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Neruda, Pablo. "Puedo Escribir [Tonight I Can Write]." Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada [Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair]. 1924.

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Neruda, Pablo. "Tonight I Can Write." Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, translated by W. S. Merwin. Penguin Classics, 2006.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

Salman Rushdie

Midnight's Children

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Rushdie, Salman. "Perforated Sheet." Midnight's Children. Jonathan Cape, 1981, bk. 1.

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Sallust. Bellum Catilinae [War of Catiline]. c. 43–40 BC.

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Sallust. "The War with Catiline." The War with Catiline and The War with Jugurtha, translated by John T. Ramsey J. C. Rolfe. Harvard University Press, 2013.

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Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 10.

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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. 10.

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Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations. Vol. 2, London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776, bk. 5, ch. 1, pt. 2, art. 3.

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Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations, edited by Edwin Cannan. The Modern Library, 2000, bk. 5, ch. 1, pt. 2, art. 3.

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Milton, John. "Paradise Regained." Paradise Regained, A Poem in 4 Books, to which is added Samson Agonistes. London: John Starkey, 1671, bk. 4, I. 220.

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Milton, John. "Paradise Regained." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 4, I. 220.

There are more disorders of the mind than of the body, and they are of a more dangerous nature.

Cicero

Tusculan Disputations

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Tusculanae Disputationes [Tusculan Disputations]. c. 45 BC, bk. 3, ch. 3.

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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.

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Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan, 1865, ch. 12.

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Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Puffin Books, 2015, ch. 12.

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." The Century Magazine, Nov. 1893-Oct. 1894.

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." Pudd'nHead Wilson and Other Tales, edited by R.D. Gooder. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Epistulae ad Atticum [Letters to Atticus]. c. 50, bk. 9, no. 10.

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Washington, Booker T. "Democracy and America." 30 Sept. 1896, Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, NY, USA.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Thoughts on Commercial Subjects." The Annual Register, Or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, For the Year 1779. London: J. Dodsley, 1780.

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Smith, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. London: Andrew Millar/Edinburgh: Alexander Kincaid and J. Bell, 1759, pt. 2, sect 2, ch. 3.

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Smith, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments, edited by Ryan Patrick Hanley. Penguin, 2010, pt. 2, sect 2, ch. 3.

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." The Century Magazine, Nov. 1893-Oct. 1894.

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." Pudd'nHead Wilson and Other Tales, edited by R.D. Gooder. Oxford University Press, 2009.