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Ptahhotep. The Maxims of Ptahhotep. c. 2375, maxim 1.

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Malcolm X. Directed by Spike Lee, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, 1992.

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Theognis. Elegies. c. 541 BC.

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Theognis. "Elegies." Hesiod and Theognis: Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies, translated by Dorothea Wender. Penguin Classics, 1976.

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Amenemope. The Instruction of Amenemope. 11 century BC.

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Amenemope. "The Instruction of Amenemope." The Literature of Ancient Egypt, edited by William Kelly Simpson, translated by Robert T. K. Ritner, William Kelly Simpson, Vincent A. Tobin, and Edward F. Wente, Jr. Yale University Press, 2003.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 3, sc. 4.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 4.

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Chandler, Raymond. "The Simple Art of Murder." Saturday Review of Literature, 15 Apr. 1950, introduction.

Think nothing done while aught remains to do.

Samuel Rogers

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Rogers, Samuel. Human Life. London: John Murray, 1819, I. 49.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 7 Dec. 1782.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

Find somebody you want to spend the rest of your life with, and hold onto her forever.

The Italian Job

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The Italian Job. Directed by F. Gary Gray, De Line Pictures, 2003.

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Delacroix, Eugène. Journal entry. 15 Apr. 1823.

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

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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The School for Scandal. Performed by John Palmer, Frances Abington, William 'Gentleman' Smith, and Jane Pope. 1777, Drury Lane Theatre, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 1.

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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The School for Scandal. Dover Publications, 1991, act 4, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. Antony and Cleopatra. King's Men, c. 1607, London, England, UK, act 5, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Antony and Cleopatra." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 3.

Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan-that is the rule.

John Fowles

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Fowles, John. "Notes on an Unfinished Novel." The Novel Today: Contemporary Writers on Modern Fiction, edited by Malcolm Bradbury. Manchester University Press, 1977.

Steal old stuff.

Austin Kleon

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Kleon, Austin. "More Advice for the Recent Graduate." 25 May 2017, austinkleon.com/2017/05/25/more-advice-for-the-recent-graduate/.

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Berry, Wendell. "Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front." The Country of Marriage. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973.

Look for the silver lining
Whene'er a cloud
Appears in the blue.

Buddy DeSylva

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DeSylva, Buddy. "Look for the Silver Lining." Sally. Composed by Jerome Kern. 1920, New Amsterdam Theatre, New York City, New York, USA.

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Happy Gilmore. Directed by Dennis Dugan, Brillstein-Grey Entertainment/Robert Simonds Productions, 1996.

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James, Henry. "The Ambassadors." North American Review, 1903.

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James, Henry. The Ambassadors, edited by Christopher Butler. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 5.

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The Breakfast Club. Directed by John Hughes, A&M Films/Channel Productions, 1985.

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Russell, Bertrand. The Conquest of Happiness. Liveright, 1930, ch. 9.