It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Henry Fielding

Amelia

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Dying Fear of death Death

Speaker

Captain William Booth

Author

Henry Fielding

Source

Amelia

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1751 1750s 18th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Fielding, Henry. Amelia. London: Andrew Millar, 1752, bk. 3, ch. 4.

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The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said, "This is mine," and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Genre
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Time
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Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Discours sur l'origine et les fondemonts de l'inegalite parmi les hommes [Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men]. Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey, 1755, pt. 2.

Current Citation

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, translated by Donald A. Cress. Hackett, 1992, pt. 2.

Another quote about Death

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

Ernest Hemingway

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The world Death
Speaker
Robert Jordan

Author

Ernest Hemingway
Source
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Medium
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Genre
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Language
English
Time
1940 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940, ch. 43.