The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Virginibus Puerisque

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Topic

Lies

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Source

Virginibus Puerisque

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1881 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Truth of Intercourse." Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881, pt. 1, ch. 4.

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Be it granted me to behold you again in dying,
Hills of home!

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Topic
Home

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1893 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Letter to S.R. Crockett. 15 Aug. 1893.

Current Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Selected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Ernest Mehew. Yale University Press, 2001, ch. 15.

Another quote from the 1880s

We are the tools are vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.

John Swinton

Quoted in Chicago Labor Enquirer

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Topic
Journalism
Speaker
John Swinton
Source
Chicago Labor Enquirer
Language
English
Time
1888 1880s 19th century
Authentication Score 1
Citation

Swinton, John. Quoted in Chicago Labor Enquirer. 12 May 1888.