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==Epigraphs==
===Epigraph 1===
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| ''All rising to Great Place is by a Winding Staire''
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| Francis Bacon, ''Essays, Civil and Moral'' (1625)
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===Epigraph 2===
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| ''Hit's a-comin', boys. Tell yore folks hit's a-comin'.''
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| Thomas Wolfe, ''O Lost, A Story of the Buried Life''
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===Epigraph 3===
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| Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
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| With-inne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
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| That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
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| Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so,
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| And spedde as wel in love as men now do;
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| Eek for to winne love in sondry ages,
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| In sondry londes, sondry been usages.
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| [[Geoffrey Chaucer]], [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Troilus_and_Criseyde ''Troilus and Criseyde'' (1385)]
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Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
With-inne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so,
And spedde as wel in love as men now do;
Eek for to winne love in sondry ages,
In sondry londes, sondry been usages.
Geoffrey Chaucer, "Troilus and Criseyde", 2.4.22-28 (1385)
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Troilus_and_Criseyde:Book_II
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===Epigraph 4===
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| Men loven of propre kinde newfangelnesse,
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| As briddes doon that men in cages fede.
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| — Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Squire's Tale"
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| Whan it cam him to purpos for to reste,
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| I trowe he hadde thilke text in minde,
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| That 'alle thing, repeiring to his kinde,
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| Gladeth him-self'; thus seyn men, as I gesse;
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| Men loven of propre kinde newfangelnesse,
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| As briddes doon that men in cages fede.
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| — Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Squire's Tale"
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