If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Jane Austen

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Topic

Books

Speaker

Kitty

Author

Jane Austen

Source

Catherine, or, The Bower

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1817 1810s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Austen, Jane. "Catharine, or, The Bower." Volume the Third. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1951.

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Jane Austen

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Topic
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Source
Pride and Prejudice
Medium
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Statement Type
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Language
English
Time
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Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 1.

Another quote from the 1810s

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is stuck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

William Hazlitt

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Topic
Laughter Crying The human condition

Author

William Hazlitt
Language
English
Time
1818 1810s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Hazlitt, William. "On Wit and Humour." Lectures on the English Comic Writers. c. 1818, Surrey Institution, London, England, UK.

Another quote about Books

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Franz Kafka

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Topic
Self-discovery Power of literature Books

Author

Franz Kafka
Source
Letters of Franz Kafka
Medium
Letter
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
German
Time
1904 1900s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Kafka, Franz. Letter to Oskar Pollak. 27 Jan. 1904.

Current Citation

Kafka, Franz. Franz Kafka: Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors, translated by Richard and Clara Winston. Schocken, 1990.