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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and a little to be enjoyed.

Samuel Johnson

The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

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Topic

Challenges of life Life The human condition

Speaker

Imlac

Author

Samuel Johnson

Source

The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1759 1750s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Johnson, Samuel. The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale. London: R. and J. Dodsley/W. Johnston, 1759, ch. 11.

Current Citation

Johnson, Samuel. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Penguin Classics, 2007, ch. 11.

All things are artificiall, for nature is the Art of God.

Sir Thomas Browne

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Topic

Nature Creation

Author

Sir Thomas Browne

Source

Religio Medici

Genre

Autobiography and memoir Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1643 1640s 17th century

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Original Citation

Browne, Thomas, Sir. Religio Medici. London, 1643, pt. 1, sect. 16.

Current Citation

Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Religio Medici (1643)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, pt. 1, sect. 16.

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

Benjamin Peirce

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Mathematics Science

Author

Benjamin Peirce

Source

Linear Associative Algebra

Medium

Academic journal

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1870 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Peirce, Benjamin. Linear Associative Algebra. Van Nostrand, 1882, sect. 1.

Life is not a thing of knowing only—nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.

Learned Hand

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Reason and emotion Knowledge Emotions

Speaker

Learned Hand

Source

Speeches of Learned Hand

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1893 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Hand, Learned. "Class-Day Oration." Commencement. 23 June 1893, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.

Blade Runner

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Living in fear Fear

Speaker

Roy Batty

Actor

Rutger Hauer

Source

Blade Runner

Medium

Film

Genre

Dystopian (film) Science fiction (film) Dystopian Science fiction

Language

English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Blade Runner. Directed by Ridley Scott, The Ladd Company/Blade Runner Partnership/Shaw Brothers Studio, 1982.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

Of Human Bondage

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Money

Speaker

Monsieur Foinet

Author

W. Somerset Maugham

Source

Of Human Bondage

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Maugham, William Somerset. Of Human Bondage. George H. Doran Company, 1915, ch. 51.

Current Citation

Maugham, William Somerset. Of Human Bondage. Signet, 2007, ch. 51.

Women and wine should life employ.
Is there ought else on earth desirous?

John Gay

The Beggar's Opera

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Topic

Women Wine Alcohol

Speaker

Matt of the Mint

Author

John Gay

Source

The Beggar's Opera

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1728 1720s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

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Gay, John. The Beggar's Opera. 1728, Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 1, air 19.

Current Citation

Gay, John. "The Beggar's Opera." The Beggar's Opera and Polly, edited by Hal Gladfelder. Oxford University Press, 2013, act 2, sc. 1, air 19.

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.

William Lloyd Garrison

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Natural law Human rights

Speaker

William Lloyd Garrison

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1853 1850s 19th century

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Garrison, William Lloyd. Speech at a Woman's Rights Convention. Woman's Rights Convention. 6 Sept. 1853, Broadway Tabernacle, New York City, NY, USA.

Think nothing done while aught remains to do.

Samuel Rogers

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Topic

Finishing a task

Author

Samuel Rogers

Source

Human Life

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1819 1810s 19th century

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Citation

Rogers, Samuel. Human Life. London: John Murray, 1819, I. 49.

No nation can longer be a fortress, lone and strong and safe. And any people, seeking such shelter for themselves, can now build only their own prison.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Second Inaugural Address of Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Isolationism International politics Political theory

Speaker

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Eisenhower, Dwight D. "Second Inaugural Address." 21 Jan. 1957, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

That's the part of it I always liked. He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to them not falling.

Dashiell Hammett

Black Mask

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Topic

Adaptability

Speaker

Sam Spade

Author

Dashiell Hammett

Source

The Maltese Falcon Black Mask

Medium

Novel Magazine

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1930 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

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Hammett, Dashiell. "The Maltese Falcon." Black Mask, Sept. 1929 - Jan. 1930. Serial.

Current Citation

Hammett, Dashiell. "The Maltese Falcon." The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest. Everyman's Library, 2000, ch. 7.

So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Diversity of religion Kindness

Author

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Source

The World's Need

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1896 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Wilcox, Ella. "The World's Need." Custer, and Other Poems. W. B. Conkey Company, 1896, I. 1.

A man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

William Faulkner

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Topic

Alcohol Stages of life

Speaker

William Faulkner

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Faulkner, William. Quoted in William Faulkner of Oxford, written and edited by James M. Webb and A. Wigfall Green. Louisiana State University Press, 1965.

It is by crawling on the face of it that one learns a country.

Evelyn Waugh

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Topic

Travel

Author

Evelyn Waugh

Source

Ninety-two Days

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1934 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Waugh, Evelyn. Ninety-two Days. Duckworth, 1934, ch. 8.

One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.

George Herbert

Jacula Prudentum

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Topic

Sleep

Author

George Herbert

Source

Jacula Prudentum

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1633 1630s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Herbert, George. Jacula Prudentum, or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Microform. London: Humphrey Blunden, 1640.

Current Citation

Herbert, George. "Outlandish Proverbs." Herbert: The Complete English Works, edited by Ann Pasternak Slater. Everyman's Library, 1995, no. 875.

Get in the car. What are you worried about? If I wanted to kill you, you'd be dead already. Get in.

The Godfather

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Topic

Kidnapping

Speaker

Sollozzo

Actor

Al Lettieri

Source

The Godfather

Medium

Film

Genre

Crime (film) Crime

Language

English

Time

1972 1970s 20th century

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Citation

The Godfather. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Paramount Pictures/Alfran Productions, 1972.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Women's Rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.

Queen Victoria

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Women's rights

Author

Queen Victoria

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1870 1870s 19th century

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Queen Victoria. Letter to Theodore Martin. 29 May 1870.

Current Citation

Queen Victoria. Quoted in The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928, written by Elizabeth Crawford. Routledge, 2003.

Falling in love is the one illogical adventure, the one thing of which we are tempted to think as supernatural, in our trite and reasonable world.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Topic

Falling in love Love

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Source

Virginibus Puerisque

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1881 1880s 19th century

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Virginibus Puerisque III: On Falling in Love." Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881.

Current Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. "On Falling in Love." Essays I: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, edited by Robert-Louis Abrahamson. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

I'm with you on the free press. It's the newspapers I can't stand.

Tom Stoppard

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Freedom of the press Newspapers Media

Speaker

Ruth

Author

Tom Stoppard

Source

Night and Day

Medium

Play

Genre

Drama (play)

Language

English

Time

1978 1970s 20th century

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Original Citation

Stoppard, Tom. Night and Day. 8 Nov. 1978, Phoenix Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1.

Current Citation

Stoppard, Tom. Night and Day. Grove Press, 2018, act 1.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism...The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Topic

Assimilation American identity American politics

Speaker

Theodore Roosevelt

Source

Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. Address to the Knights of Columbus. 12 Oct. 1915, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, USA.