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Twain, Mark. "Extracts from Adam's Diary: Translated from the Original Ms." The Niagara Book. Buffalo: Underhill and Nichols, 1893.

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Twain, Mark. "Extracts from Adam's Diary." The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain, edited by Lawrence Berkove. Modern Library, 2004.

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Quintilian. Institutio Oratoria [Institutes of Oratory]. c. 95 AD, bk. 1, ch. 8, sect. 14.

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Paine, Thomas. Letter Addressed to the Addressers, on the Late Proclamation. London: H. D. Symonds and Thomas Clio Rickman, 1792.

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Paine, Thomas. "Letter Addressed to the Addressers on the Late Proclamation." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Moliere. Le Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur [Tartuffe or the Impostor]. 5 Feb. 1669, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris, France, act 4, sc. 5.

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Moliere. "Tartuffe." The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays, translated by Maya Slater. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 4, sc. 5.

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

Daniel Defoe

Moll Flanders

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Defoe, Daniel, [published anonymously]. Moll Flanders. London: William Rufus Chetwood, 1722.

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Defoe, Daniel. Moll Flanders: A Norton Critical Edition, edited by Albert J. Rivero. W.W. Norton & Company, 2003.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Guy de Maupassant. 16 Feb. 1880.

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Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 1, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1776, ch. 14.

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Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 1. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 14.

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Brontë, Charlotte, [published as Currer Bell]. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, 2nd ed. London: Service and Patton, 1848, preface.

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Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics, 2006, preface to the 2nd ed.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Simone Weil

Gravity and Grace

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Weil, Simone. La Pensanteur et la Grace [Gravity and Grace], edited by Gustave Thibon. Plon, 1947.

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Weil, Simone. "To Desire Without an Object." Gravity and Grace, edited by Gustave Thibon, translated by Emma Crawford and Mario van der Ruhr. Routledge, 2002.

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Defoe, Daniel. A Hymn to the Pillory. London: 1703, I. 29.

The end justifies the means.

Hermann Busenbaum

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Busenbaum, Hermann. Medulla Theologiae Moralis. 1650.

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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The Critic. 1779, Drury Lane Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 1.

It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Jeremy Bentham

A Fragment on Government

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Bentham, Jeremy. A Fragment on Government. London: T. Payne, P. Elmsly, and E. Brooke, 1776, preface.

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Bentham, Jeremy. "A Fragment on Government." A Comment on the Commentaries and A Fragment on Government, edited by J.H. Burns and H.L.A Hart. Clarendon Press, 2009, preface.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 2, sc. 2.

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

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Bentham, Jeremy. "Memoirs of Bentham." The Works of Jeremy Bentham, edited by John Bowring. Vol. 10, London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1843.

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Chesterton, G.K. "A Short History of England." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 20, Ignatius Press, 2002. Originally published by William Clowes and Sons, 1917.

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Hand, Learned. "A Pledge of Allegiance." I Am An American Day. 20 May 1945, Central Park, New York City, NY, USA.

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech in General Reply; First Day: Wednesday, May 28, 1794." Speeches in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, Esquire. 28 May 1794, Westminster Hall, Westminster, London, UK.

That action is best, which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

Francis Hutcheson

An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue

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Hutcheson, Francis. An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue. London: J. Darby, 1726, treatise 2, sect. 3, subsect. 8.

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Hutcheson, Francis. An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, edited by Wolfgang Leidhold. Liberty Fund, 2008.

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Huxley, Aldous. Ends and Means (an Enquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization). Chatto & Windus, 1937, ch. 1.