Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

John Ruskin

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Topic

Reading Confirmation bias

Speaker

John Ruskin

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1864 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Ruskin, John. "Of Kings' Treasuries." Dec. 1864, Rusholme, Manchester, England, UK. Lecture.

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If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!

Henry David Thoreau

Life Without Principle

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Topic
Man and nature

Author

Henry David Thoreau
Source
Life Without Principle The Atlantic
Medium
Essay Magazine
Language
English
Time
1862 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Thoreau, Henry David. "Life Without Principle." The Atlantic, Oct. 1863.

Current Citation

Thoreau, Henry David. "Life Without Principle." Walden and Other Writings. Modern Library, 2000.

Another quote from 1864

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

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Topic
Slavery

Author

Abraham Lincoln
Source
Letters of Abraham Lincoln
Medium
Letter
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1864 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. Letter to Albert G. Hodges. 4 Apr. 1864.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "To Albert G. Hodges, April 4, 1864." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.