Take away time is money, and what is left of England? Take away cotton is king, and what is left of America?

Otez Time is money, que reste-t-il de l'Angleterre? Otez Cotton is king, que rest-t-il de l'Amerique?

Victor Hugo

Les Miserables

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England America

Author

Victor Hugo

Source

Les Miserables

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Poet Writer

From

France Europe

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Original Citation

Hugo, Victor. Les Miserables. A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie, 1862, vol. 3, bk. 4, ch. 4.

Current Citation

Hugo, Victor. Les Miserables. Translated by Christine Donougher. Penguin, 2016, vol. 3, bk. 4, ch. 4.

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Another quote from the 1860s

The destiny of the colored American…is the destiny of America.

Frederick Douglass

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Black Americans Race in America America
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Frederick Douglass
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1862 1860s 19th century
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Douglass, Frederick. "The Future of the Negro People of the Slave States." Emancipation League, 12 Feb. 1862, Tremont Temple, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Another quote about America

This is a free country.

James Flint

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America

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James Flint
Medium
Letter
Language
English
Time
1819 1810s 19th century
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Flint, James. "28 June 1819." Flint's Letters from America, 1818-1820. 1822.

Another quote from 1862

The vague, crepuscular time; the time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that resemble regrets, when youth has passed, but old age has not yet arrived.

Ivan Turgenev

Fathers and Sons

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Middle age

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Ivan Turgenev
Source
Fathers and Sons
Medium
Novel
Language
Russian
Time
1862 1860s 19th century
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Original Citation

Turgenev, Ivan. Отцы и дети (Otcy i deti) [Fathers and Children]. 1862, ch. 7.

Current Citation

Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers and Sons, trans. Richard Freeborn. Oxford UP, 2008, ch. 7.

Another quote originally in French

Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be; in this direction their unbounded imagination grows and dilates beyond all measure.... Democracy, which shuts the past against the poet, opens the future before him.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America

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Democracy

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Alexis de Tocqueville
Source
Democracy in America
Genre
Political literature
Language
French
Time
1840 1840s 19th century
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Original Citation

Tocqueville, Alexis. De La Democratie en Amerique [Democracy in America]. Volume 2. 1835, pt. 1, ch. 17.

Current Citation

Tocqueville, Alexis. "Of some of the sources of poetry amongst democratic nations." Democracy in America. Translated by Henry Reeve. Bantam, 2000, vol. 2, pt. 1, ch. 17.