Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.

Ah! que la vie est quotidienne.

Jules Laforgue

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Topic

Nature of life Spending time Passage of time Life

Author

Jules Laforgue

Source

Les Complaintes

Medium

Poem

Language

French

Time

1885 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Uruguay South America

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Citation

Laforgue, Jules. "Complainte sur certains ennuis." Les Complaintes. Paris: Léon Vanier, 1885.

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In the true marriage relation, the independence of the husband and wife is equal, the dependence mutual and their obligations reciprocal.

Lucretia Mott

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Equality in relationships Marriage Men and women

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Lucretia Mott
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English
Time
1880 1880s 19th century
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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

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Passage of time Time Comeuppance
Speaker
Clown

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Source
Twelfth Night
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Play
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Language
English
Time
1602 1600s 17th century
Era
European Renaissance
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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night, Or What You Will. 1602, Middle Temple Hall, London, England, UK, act 5, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Twelfth Night." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 1.

Another quote originally in French

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within the solitude of his own heart.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America

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Downsides of democracy Democracy

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Alexis de Tocqueville
Source
Democracy in America
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Time
1840 1840s 19th century
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Tocqueville, Alexis De. De La Democratie en Amerique [Democracy in America]. Vol. 2, London: Saunders and Otley, 1840, sect. 2, ch. 2.

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II, translated by Henry Reeve. Bantam Classics, 2000, vol. 2, sect. 2, ch. 2.