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Musique and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Samuel Pepys

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Music

Author

Samuel Pepys

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1666 1660s 17th century

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Citation

Pepys, Samuel. Diary entry. 9 Mar. 1666.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Douglas Adams

Mostly Harmless

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User experience Fools Design

Author

Douglas Adams

Source

Mostly Harmless

Medium

Novel

Genre

Science fiction

Language

English

Time

1992 1990s 20th century

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Citation

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

He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

Alexander Pope

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Consequences of lying Lying Lies Liars

Author

Alexander Pope

Source

Thoughts on Various Subjects

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1727 1720s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Citation

Pope, Alexander. "Thoughts on Various Subjects." Swifts's Miscellanies. London, 1727, no. 31.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Alan Watts

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Nature of life Life Permanence Impermanence

Author

Alan Watts

Source

Play to Live

Genre

Religious literature Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Watts, Alan. Play to Live: Selected Seminars. And Books, 1982.

Man is a Tool-using Animal...without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all.

Thomas Carlyle

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Man and animals Tools Nature of man

Author

Thomas Carlyle

Source

Sartor Resartus

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1834 1830s 19th century

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Carlyle, Thomas. "Sartor Resartus." Fraser's Magazine, Nov. 1833–Aug. 1834. Serial.

Current Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. Sartor Resartus, edited by Kerry McSweeney and Peter Sabor. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, ch. 5.

We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did."

Izaak Walton

The Compleat Angler

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Fishing

Author

Izaak Walton

Source

The Compleat Angler

Medium

Treatise

Language

English

Time

1653 1650s 17th century

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Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler. London: Richard Marriot, 1653, pt. 1, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler, edited by Marjorie Swann. Oxford University Press, 2014, pt. 1, ch. 5.

They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind.

G.K. Chesterton

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Travel Open-mindedness

Speaker

Gabriel Gale

Author

G.K. Chesterton

Source

The Poet and the Lunatics Nash's Magazine

Medium

Novel Magazine

Language

English

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Chesterton, G.K. "The Poet and the Lunatics." Nash's Magazine, 1921, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Chesterton, G.K. The Poet and the Lunatics. Dover, 2010, ch. 3.

What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.

George Meredith

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Women criticizing women Women

Author

George Meredith

Source

Diana of the Crossways

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1885 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Meredith, George. Diana of the Crossways. London: Chapman and Hall, 1885. Originally published in Fortnightly, 1884.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Evelyn Waugh

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Punctuality

Author

Evelyn Waugh

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Waugh, Evelyn. Diary Entry. 26 March 1962.

See, Winter comes to rule the varied year,
Sullen and sad.

James Thomson

The Seasons: Winter

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Winter Seasons

Author

James Thomson

Source

The Seasons: Winter

Language

English

Time

1726 1720s 18th century

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Citation

Thomson, James. Winter. London: John Millan, 1726.

I sometimes hold it half a sin
To put in words the grief I feel;
For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within.

Alfred Tennyson

In Memoriam A.H.H.

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Limits of language

Author

Alfred Tennyson

Source

In Memoriam A.H.H.

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1850 1850s 19th century

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Original Citation

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. In Memoriam A.H.H. London: Edward Moxon, 1850, pt. 4, st. 5.

Current Citation

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "In Memoriam A.H.H." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009 pt. 4, st. 5.

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

Sir Thomas Browne

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Life and death Fear of death Death 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. 5.

Current Citation

Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Hydriotaphia or Urne Buriall (1658)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, ch. 5.

Better build schoolrooms for "the boy",
Than cells and gibbets for "the man".

Eliza Cook

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Topic

Education

Author

Eliza Cook

Source

A Song for the Ragged Schools

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1853 1850s 19th century

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Citation

Cook, Eliza. A Song for the Ragged Schools. c. 1853.

Teach me to feel another's wo,
To hide the fault I see:
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me.

Alexander Pope

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Empathy Mercy Compassion

Author

Alexander Pope

Source

The Universal Prayer

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1738 1730s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Citation

Pope, Alexander. "The Universal Prayer." London: R. Dodsley, 1738, I. 37-40.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

Bertrand Russell

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Topic

Delusion

Author

Bertrand Russell

Source

Dreams and Facts Sceptical Essays

Medium

Essay

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Russell, Bertrand. "Dreams and Facts." Sceptical Essays. George Allen and Unwin Ltd./W. W. Norton & Company, 1928.

In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape.

Pico Iyer

The Art of Stillness

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Topic

Music

Author

Pico Iyer

Source

The Art of Stillness

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

2014 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Iyer, Pico. The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere. Simon & Schuster/TED Books, 2014, ch. 5. Originally a TED Talk, 2013.

Marriage is like life in this-that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Topic

Downsides of marriage Relationship challenges Marriage

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Source

Virginibus Puerisque

Medium

Essay

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1876 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Virginibus Puerisque." The Cornhill Magazine, vol. 34, 1876, p. 176.

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.

William Shakespeare

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New love

Speaker

Juliet Capulet

Author

William Shakespeare

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1597 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. London: John Danter, 1597, act 2, sc. 2.

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

The principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex to the other—is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.

John Stuart Mill

The Subjection of Women

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Patriarchy Oppression of women Gender relations

Author

John Stuart Mill

Source

The Subjection of Women

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1869 1860s 19th century

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Original Citation

Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Mill, John Stuart. "The Subjection of Women." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 1.

Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

W.H. Auden

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The past History The human condition

Author

W.H. Auden

Source

D.H. Lawrence

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Auden, W. H. "D. H. Lawrence." The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays. Random House, 1962.