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Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.

Iain Duncan Smith

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Topic

Still waters run deep

Speaker

Iain Duncan Smith

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Smith, Iain Duncan. Speech to the Conservative Party Conference. The 2002 Conservative Party Conference. 10 Oct. 2002, Bournemouh, England, UK.

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;
Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,
My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.

Robert Burns

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Topic

Scottish highlands Scotland Countries

Author

Robert Burns

Source

My Heart's in the Highlands

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1789 1780s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Burns, Robert. My Heart's in the Highlands. 1789.

Current Citation

Burns, Robert. "Farewell to the Highlands (My Heart's in the Highlands)." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994.

All kings, and all their favourites,
All glory of honours, beauties, wits,
The sun itself, which makes times as they pass,
Is elder by a year, now, than it was
When thou and I first one another saw.
All other things to their destruction draw;
Only our love hath no decay;
This no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday;
Running it never runs from us away,
But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

John Donne

Songs and Sonnets

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Topic

Undying love

Author

John Donne

Source

The Anniversary Songs and Sonnets

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1631 1630s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Donne, John. "The Anniversary." Songs and Sonnets. London, 1633, st. 1, I. 1.

Current Citation

Donne, John. "The Anniversary." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2007, st. 1, I. 1.

On all plausible theories, everyone’s well-being consists at least in part in being happy, and avoiding suffering.

Derek Parfit

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Topic

Moral theory Happiness Suffering

Author

Derek Parfit

Source

On What Matters

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 20th century

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Citation

Parfit, Derek. Reasons and Persons. Oxford University Press, 1984.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

William Hazlitt

On Prejudice

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Topic

Overthinking

Author

William Hazlitt

Source

On Prejudice

Language

English

Time

1839 1830s 19th century

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Citation

Hazlitt, William. "On Prejudice." Sketches and Essays. London: John Templeman, 1839.

There seems to be a general overall pattern in most lives, that nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then all of a sudden everything happens.

Fay Weldon

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Topic

Inflection points

Author

Fay Weldon

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo, 2002.

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A.A. Milne

The House at Pooh Corner

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Topic

Vulnerability Inner life

Author

A.A. Milne

Source

The House at Pooh Corner

Medium

Children's book

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Milne, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner. Methuen, 1928, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Milne, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner. Dutton Books for Young Readers, 2018, ch. 6.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

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Topic

Forces of history Progress

Author

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Samuel Butler. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, edited by Henry Festing Jones. A. C. Fifield, 1912, ch. 1.

No man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.

Sir John Vanbrugh

The Relapse

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Topic

Infidelity Relationship challenges

Speaker

Berinthia

Author

Sir John Vanbrugh

Source

The Relapse

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play) Comedy

Language

English

Time

1696 1690s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Vanbrugh, John, Sir. The Relapse. Performed by Colley Cibber, Mary Kent, John Verbruggen, and Jane Rogers. Patent Company, 1696, Drury Lane, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 2.

Current Citation

Vanbrugh, John, Sir. "The Relapse." The Relapse and Other Plays. Oxford University Press, 2009, act 3, sc. 2.

I will make it felony to drink small beer.

William Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part 2

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Topic

Beer Alcohol Drinking alcohol

Speaker

Cade

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Henry VI, Part 2

Medium

Play

Genre

History (play)

Language

English

Time

1594 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Henry VI, Part 2. London: Thomas Millington, 1594, act 4, sc. 2.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Second Part of Henry the Sixth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 2.

Were the happinesse of the next world as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.

Sir Thomas Browne

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Topic

The afterlife Heaven Life

Author

Sir Thomas Browne

Source

Hydriotaphia

Language

English

Time

1658 1650s 17th century

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Original Citation

Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk." Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk Together with the Garden of Cyrus. London: Henry Brome, 1658, ch. 4.

Current Citation

Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Hydriotaphia or Urne Buriall (1658)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, ch. 4.

You may depend upon it, that a slight contrast of character is very material to happiness in marriage.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Topic

Happiness in marriage Marriage

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source

Table Talk

Language

English

Time

1834 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Parental Control of Marriage - Marriage of Cousins - Difference of Character, June 10, 1824." Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. London: John Murray, 1852.

Current Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge (2nd ed 1836)." The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, vol. 14: Table Talk, edited by Kathleen Coburn and Bart Winer. Princeton University Press, 2019.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion.

Bertrand Russell

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Topic

Religious persecution

Author

Bertrand Russell

Source

An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish Unpopular Essays

Medium

Essay

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1950 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Russell, Bertrand. "An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish." Unpopular Essays. George Allen & Unwin, 1950.

My son-and what's a son? A thing begot
Within a pair of minutes, thereabout,
A lump bred up in darkness.

Thomas Kyd

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Topic

Parents and children

Speaker

Don Hieronimo

Author

Thomas Kyd

Source

The Spanish Tragedy

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1592 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kyd, Thomas. The Spanish Tragedy. 1592, The Rose, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 11.

Current Citation

Kyd, Thomas. The Spanish Tragedy, edited by Michael Neill. W. W. Norton & Company, 2013, act 3, sc. 11.

She was the People's Princess, and that is how she will stay... In our hearts and in our memories forever.

Tony Blair

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Topic

Princess Diana The Royal Family

Speaker

Tony Blair

Source

Associated Press

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1997 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Blair, Tony. Press Release. Associated Press, 31 Aug. 1997.

Keep violence in the mind
Where it belongs.

Brian Aldiss

Barefoot in the Head

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Topic

Violent fantasies Violence

Author

Brian Aldiss

Source

Barefoot in the Head

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Aldiss, Brian. Barefoot in the Head. Faber & Faber, 1969.

How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.

Edward Coke

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Topic

Custom and convention Reason Law

Author

Edward Coke

Source

Institutes of the Lawes of England

Medium

Treatise

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1628 1620s 17th century

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Citation

Coke, Edward. The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. Or, a Commentarie upon Littleton, Not the Name of a Lawyer Onely, but of the Law it selfe. London: Societe of Stationers, 1628, bk. 1, ch. 10, sect. 80.

We are not the masters. The people are the masters. We are the servants of the people... What the electorate gives, the electorate can take away.

Tony Blair

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Topic

Elections Democracy Political theory Politics

Speaker

Tony Blair

Source

Speeches of Tony Blair

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1997 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Blair, Tony. Addressing Labour MPs on the first day of the new Parliment. 7 May 1977, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

O Caledonia, stern and wild,
Meet nurse for a poetic child!
Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,
Land of the mountain and the flood.

Sir Walter Scott

The Lady of Minstrel

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Topic

Scotland

Author

Sir Walter Scott

Source

The Lady of Minstrel

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1805 1800s 19th century

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Citation

Scott, Walter, Sir. The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co./London: Longman, Hurst,
Rees, and Orme, 1805, canto 6, st. 2.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,
To raise the genius, and to mend the heart;
To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold,
Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold:
For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage.

Alexander Pope

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Topic

Purpose of art Power of art Art

Author

Alexander Pope

Source

Prologue to Addison's Tragedy of Cato Cato

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1713 1710s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Pope, Alexander. "Prologue to Addison's Cato." Cato, written by Joseph Addison. 14 Apr. 1713, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, UK, I. 1-5.

Current Citation

Pope, Alexander. "Prologue to Mr. Addison's Tragedy of Cato." Pope: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series). Everyman's Library, 2018, I. 1-5.