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Life is a gamble at terrible odds-if it was a bet, you wouldn't take it.

Tom Stoppard

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

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Topic

Nature of life The human condition

Speaker

Player

Author

Tom Stoppard

Source

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1966 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. 24 Aug. 1966, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh, Scotland, act 3.

Current Citation

Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Grove Press, 2017, act 3.

Be it art or hap,
He hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

Antony and Cleopatra

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Topic

Honesty Truth

Speaker

Mark Antony

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Antony and Cleopatra

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1607 1600s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Antony and Cleopatra. King's Men, c. 1607, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 3.

Current Citation

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

It easeth some, though none it ever cur'd,
To think their dolour others have endur'd.

William Shakespeare

The Rape of Lucrece

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Topic

Misery loves company Suffering

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

The Rape of Lucrece

Medium

Poem

Genre

Narrative poem

Language

English

Time

1594 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. The Rape of Lucrece. London: Richard Field, 1594, I. 1581.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Rape of Lucrece." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, I. 1581.

He loved the People just as much as he feared and detested Persons.

Sinclair Lewis

It Can't Happen Here

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Topic

Individual vs. the collective Misanthropy

Author

Sinclair Lewis

Source

It Can't Happen Here

Medium

Novel

Genre

Dystopian fiction

Language

English

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1935, ch. 35.

The Conservatives…being by the law of their existence the stupidest party.

John Stuart Mill

Considerations on Representative Government

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Topic

Conservatism

Author

John Stuart Mill

Source

Considerations on Representative Government

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1861 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Mill, John Stuart. Considerations on Representative Government. London: Parker, Son, and Bourn, 1861, ch. 7.

Current Citation

Mill, John Stuart. "Considerations on Representative Government." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 7.

And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

Stephen Chbosky

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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Topic

Connecting with others Friendship

Speaker

Charlie (Perks of Being a Wallflower)

Author

Stephen Chbosky

Source

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Chbosky, Stephen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Pocket Books, 1999.

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

Polybius

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Topic

Winning Lack of wisdom

Author

Polybius

Source

Histories (Polybius)

Genre

Historical literature

Language

Greek

Time

117 BC 110s BC 2nd century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Polybius. Ἱστορίαι [Histories]. c. 110 BC, bk. 10.

Current Citation

Polybius. The Histories, translated by W. R. Paton. Vol. 4, Loeb Classical Library, 1992, bk. 10.

There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future; the Establishment and the Movement.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Topic

Political parties Past and future

Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source

Historic Notes on Life and Letters in Massachusetts Atlantic Monthly

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1882 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Historic Notes on Life and Letters in Massachusetts." Atlantic Monthly. Boston, Oct. 1883.

Current Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Historic Notes of Life and Letters in New England." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another.

Pliny the Elder

Naturalis Historia

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Topic

Human diversity

Author

Pliny the Elder

Source

Naturalis Historia

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

Latin

Time

77 70s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Pliny the Elder. Historia Naturalis [Natural History]. 77 AD, bk. 7.

Current Citation

Pliny the Elder. Natural History: A Selection, translated by John F. Healy. Penguin Classics, 1991, bk. 7.

Men are vile inconstant toads.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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Topic

Nature of men Men and women

Author

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1710 1710s 18th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Letter to Anne Justice. c. 12 June 1710.

Current Citation

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. "Letter to Anne Justice." Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Selected Letters. Penguin Books, 1997.

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves.

Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore

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Topic

Falling in love

Speaker

Oshima

Author

Haruki Murakami

Source

Kafka on the Shore

Medium

Novel

Language

Japanese

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Murakami, Haruki. 海辺のカフカ [Kafka on the Shore]. Shinchosha, 2002.

To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.

Catiline

Quoted in The War of Catiline, by Sallust

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Topic

Nature of friendship Friendship

Speaker

Catiline

Author

Sallust

Source

The War of Catiline

Genre

Historical literature Political literature

Language

Latin

Time

50 BC 50s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Catiline. Quoted in Bellum Catilinae [War of Catiline], written by Sallust. c. 44 BC.

Current Citation

Catiline. Quoted in "Cataline's Conspiracy." Cataline's Conspiracy, The Jugurthine War, Histories, written by Sallust and translated by William W. Batstone. Oxford University Press, 2010.

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

Camille Paglia

Sexual Personae

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Topic

Differences between men and women Men and women

Author

Camille Paglia

Source

Sexual Personae

Genre

Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1990 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Paglia, Camille. Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson. Yale University Press, 1990, ch. 8.

He that dies pays all debts.

William Shakespeare

The Tempest

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Topic

Death as a blessing Death Debt

Speaker

Stephano

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

The Tempest

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Tempest." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 3, sc. 2.

Current Citation

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

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Francis Bacon

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Topic

Politicians Politics

Author

Francis Bacon

Source

Of Cunning Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1625 1620s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Bacon, Francis. "Of Cunning." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

Current Citation

Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Cunning." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

In view of that, conceal nothing! For all things are unfolded by all-seeing and all-hearing time.

Sophocles

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Topic

Forthrightness Openness

Author

Sophocles

Source

Hipponous

Medium

Play

Genre

Greek theater

Language

Greek

Time

468 BC 460s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Sophocles. "Hipponous." Fragments. c. 468 BC, frag. 301.

Current Citation

Sophocles. "Hipponous." Fragments, edited and translated by Hugh Lloyd-Jones. Harvard University Press, 1996, frag. 301.

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Sorrows of Young Werther

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Topic

Adulthood The human condition

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Source

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Medium

Novel

Genre

Epistolary novel

Language

German

Time

1774 1770s 18th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Die Leiden des jungen Werthers [The Sorrows of Young Werther]. Leipzig: Weygand'sche Buchhandlung, 1774.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "The Sorrows of Young Werther." The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings, translated by Catherin Hutter. Signet, 2013.

Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land.

Christina Georgina Rossetti

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Topic

Legacy Memory

Author

Christina Georgina Rossetti

Source

Remember

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Rossetti, Christina. "Remember." Goblin Market and Other Poems. London: Macmillan, 1862, I. 1.

Current Citation

Rossetti, Christina. "Remember." The Complete Poems. Penguin Classics, 2001, I. 1.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street,
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,
But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Topic

Inner life Society and the individual Power of thought Thoughts

Author

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source

The Poets Keramos and Other Poems

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1878 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Poets." Keramos and Other Poems. Boston: Houghton, Osgood & Company/London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1878, I. 12.

Current Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadswoth. "The Poets." Longfellow: Poems & Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, I. 12.

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

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Topic

Spending time in nature Nature

Author

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Source

Letters of St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Medium

Letter

Language

Latin

Time

1147 1140s 12th century

Era

Middle Ages

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Clairvaux, St. Bernard. Letter to Magister Henry Murdach. c. 1150.

Current Citation

Clairvaux, St. Bernard. "Letter CVI." Life and Works of Saint Bernard. Aeterna Press, 2015.