Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Topic

Books Life

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Source

Virginibus Puerisque

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1881 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. "An Apology for Idlers." Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881.

Current Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. "An Apology for Idlers." Essays I: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, edited by Robert-Louis Abrahamson. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

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Be it granted me to behold you again in dying,
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Topic
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Author

Robert Louis Stevenson
Medium
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Language
English
Time
1893 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Letter to S.R. Crockett. 15 Aug. 1893.

Current Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Selected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Ernest Mehew. Yale University Press, 2001, ch. 15.

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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man, without at last finding the other end of it fastened about his own neck.

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Medium
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Genre
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Time
1883 1880s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Douglass, Frederick. Speech in Washington, D.C. Civil Rights Mass Meeting. 22 Oct. 1883, Lincoln Hall, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Douglass, Frederick. "This Decision Has Humbled the Nation (1883)." The Speeches of Frederick Douglass, edited by John R. McKivigan, Julie Husband and Heather L. Kaufman. Yale University Press, 2018.

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Author

Annie Proulx
Source
The Shipping News
Medium
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Language
English
Time
1993 1990s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

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