Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

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Topic

Effects of alcohol

Author

Herman Melville

Source

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1851 1850s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 3.

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The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Abraham Lincoln

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Voting Political theory
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Abraham Lincoln
Source
Lost Speech
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1856 1850s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Lost Speech." Anti-Nebraska Bloomington Convention, First Republican State Convention of Illinois. 29 May 1856, Major's Hall, Bloomington, IL, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech at Bloomington, Illinois, May 29, 1856." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.