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Burke, Edmund. A Letter to John Farr and John Harris, Esqs., Sheriffs of the City of Bristol, on the Affairs of America. London: J. Dodsley, 3 Apr. 1777.

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Burke, Edmund. "A Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol on the Affairs of America." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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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.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Jeremiah 31:33).

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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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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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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society. London: John Newbery, 1764.

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Rope. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Transatlantic Pictures, 1948.

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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.

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The Grapes of Wrath. Directed by John Ford. 20th Century Fox, 1940.

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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Deserted Village. London: W. Griffin, 1770, l. 51.

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

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Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Egerton, 1814, ch. 9.

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Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 9.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 12.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 12.

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Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, satire 2.

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Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 2.