To be born is to be wrecked on an island.

J.M. Barrie

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Topic

The human condition

Author

J.M. Barrie

Source

The Coral Island

Language

English

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Barrie, J. M. Quoted in The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean, by R. M. Ballantyne. James Nisbet and Co., 1913, preface.

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Railway termini... Are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

E.M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster)

Howards End

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Topic
Trains Travel

Author

E.M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster)
Source
Howards End
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1910 1910s 20th century
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Citation

Forster, E.M. Howards End. Edward Arnold, 1910, ch. 2.

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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Lady Windermere's Fan

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Topic
Stars The human condition
Speaker
Lord Darlington

Author

Oscar Wilde
Source
Lady Windermere's Fan
Medium
Play
Genre
Comedic play
Language
English
Time
1892 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Wilde, Oscar. Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman. 1892, St James's Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3.

Current Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "Lady Windermere's Fan." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 3.

Another quote from 1913

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

Louis Brandeis

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Topic
Transparency in government

Author

Louis Brandeis
Source
What Publicity Can Do Harper's Magazine
Medium
Essay Magazine
Language
English
Time
1913 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Brandeis, Louis. "What Publicity Can Do." Harper's Weekly, 20 Dec. 1913.