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Aristotle. Rhetoric. 322 BC, bk. 2, pt. 16, sect. 3.

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Aristotle. The Art of Rhetoric, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 2, pt. 16, sect. 3.

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Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1743.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1743." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

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Blake, William. "The Argument." The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. c. 1790.

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Blake, William. "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V. Erdman. University of California Press, 2008.

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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. Directed by George Lucas, Lucasfilm Ltd., 1977.

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Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 5, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 1.

A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

William Cowper

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Cowper, William. "Conversation." Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. London: J. Johnson, 1782, I. 96.

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Aurora Leigh. London: Chapman & Hall, 1857, bk. 6.

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Aurora Leigh. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 6.

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Adams, Douglas. Mostly Harmless. William Heinemann/Harmony Books, 1992, ch. 12.

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to his son. 30 Oct. 1747.

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Hesiod. Ἔργα καὶ Ἡμέραι [Works and Days]. c. 700 BC, l. 218.

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Hesiod. "Works and Days." Theogony and Works and Days, translated by M. L. West. Oxford University Press, 2009, l. 218.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Crabbed Age and Youth." Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Crabbed Age and Youth." Essays I: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, edited by Robert-Louis Abrahamson. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

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Bacon, Francis. The Advancement of Learning. London: Oxford: Rob Youn and Ed Forrest, 1605, bk. 6, ch. 3, no. 31.

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Bacon, Francis. "The Advancement of Learning." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 6, ch. 3, no. 31.

Fools are here below for our minor pleasures.

Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset

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Gresset, Jean-Baptiste-Louis. Le Méchant [The Villain]. 15 Apr. 1747, Comédie-Française, Paris, France, act 2, sc. 1.

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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.