I look at them as a child looks at a cake,-with glittering eyes and watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him!

Elizabeth Gaskell

On the books she was planning to read.

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Books

Author

Elizabeth Gaskell

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1859 1850s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Gaskell, Elizabeth. Letter to George Smith. 4 Aug. 1859.

Current Citation

Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Letters of Mrs. Gaskell. Mandolin, 1997.

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Another quote from the 1850s

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

John Stuart Mill

On Liberty

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Topic
Making arguments

Author

John Stuart Mill
Source
On Liberty
Medium
Essay
Genre
Philosophical literature Political literature
Language
English
Time
1859 1850s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: J.W. Parker and Son, 1859, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 2.

Another quote about Books

When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

Clifton Fadiman

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Power of literature Books

Author

Clifton Fadiman
Language
English
Time
1957 1950s 20th century
Authentication Score 1
Citation

Fadiman, Clifton. Any Number Can Play. The World Publishing Company, 1957.

Another quote from 1859

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Charles Darwin

On the Origin of the Species

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Natural selection Evolution

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Charles Darwin
Source
On the Origin of the Species
Genre
Scientific literature
Language
English
Time
1859 1850s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of the Species. London: John Murray, 1859, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Darwin, Charles. The Origin of the Species, edited by William Bynum. Penguin, 2009, ch. 3.