It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Topic

Fools Life and death Death

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Source

Virginibus Puerisque

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1881 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Crabbed Age and Youth." Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers, 1881.

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Time
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It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.

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Source
Sociology
Medium
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Genre
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Time
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Authentication Score 3
Citation

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The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

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Ernest Hemingway
Source
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Medium
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Genre
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Language
English
Time
1940 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940, ch. 43.