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For anyone trying to discern what to do with their life: pay attention to what you pay attention to.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

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Rosenthal, Amy Krouse [@missamykr]. "for anyone trying to discern what to do w/ their life: PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO. that's pretty much all the info u need." Twitter, 15 Mar. 2013, 7:02 a.m., twitter.com/missamykr/status/312564535242395648

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Wheeler, Elmer. "Wheelerpoint #1." Tested Sentences that Sell. Prentice-Hall, 1937.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

Nelson Algren

A Walk on the Wild Side

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Algren, Nelson. A Walk on the Wild Side. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956, pt. 3.

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Trollope, Anthony. "The Small House at Allington." Cornhill Magazine, 1862-1863. Monthly serial.

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Trollope, Anthony. The Small House at Allington. Penguin Classics, 1991, ch. 32.

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Jerome, Jerome Klapka. Three Men in a Boat. London: J. W. Arrowsmith, 1889, ch. 3.

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Jerome, Jerome Klapa. "Three Men in a Boat." Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel, edited by Jeremy Lewis. Penguin Classics, 2000, ch. 3.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Colossians 3:23).

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Cheever, John. The Wapshot Chronicle. Harper & Brothers, 1957, ch. 37.

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Shakespeare, William. Richard III. London: Andrew Wise, 1597, act 4, sc. 4.

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

Do not be afraid, only believe.

Jesus

Mark 5:36

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The Holy Bible: New American Standard Bible. The Lockman Foundation, 1971. (Mark 5:36).

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre [Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship]. Berlin: Johann Friedrich Unger, 1785-1786, bk. 5, ch. 1.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship." Goethe: The Collected Works, edited and translated by Eric A. Blackall. Vol. 9, Princeton University Press, 1995, bk. 5, ch. 1.

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

Phyllis Diller

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Diller, Phyllis. Phyllis Diller's Household Hints. Doubleday, 1966.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "Que Philosopher C'Est Apprendre a Mourir [That to Study Philosophy is to Learn to Die]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "To Philosophize is to Learn How to Die." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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Confucius. 論語 [The Analects]. c. 479 BCE.

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Confucius. The Analects, edited and translated by Annping Chin. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Alighieri, Dante. "Inferno [Hell]." La Comedia di Dante Alleghieri [The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri]. Foligno: Johann Numeister and Evangelista Angelini da Trevi, 1472.

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Alighieri, Dante. "Inferno." The Divine Comedy, edited by David H. Higgins, translated by C. H. Sisson. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Laozi [Lao Tzu]. 道德經 [Tao Te Ching]. c. 400 BC, ch. 19.

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Laozi [Lao Tzu]. "The Natural Way of Lao Tzu." A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, translated by Wing-Tsit Chan. Princeton University Press, 1969, ch. 19.

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Confucius. 論語 [The Analects]. c. 479 BCE.

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Confucius. The Analects, edited and translated by Annping Chin. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Studiezimmer [Study Room]." Faust. Eine Tragödie [Faust: A Tragedy]. Tübingen: J. G. Cotta’schen Buchhandlung, 1808.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Study Room." Faust, Part One, edited by David Luke. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 4.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 4.

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Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. London: John Danter, 1597, act 2, sc. 2.

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

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Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1741.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1741." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.