There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years.

Willa Cather

O Pioneers!

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Plus ça change Stories The human condition

Speaker

Carl (O Pioneers!)

Author

Willa Cather

Source

O Pioneers!

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Original Citation

Cather, Willa. O Pioneers! Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913, pt. 2, ch. 4.

Current Citation

Cather, Willa. O Pioneers, edited by Sharon O'Brien. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, pt. 2, ch. 4.

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The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

Willa Cather

O Pioneers!

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Nature of history History Nations

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Willa Cather
Source
O Pioneers!
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1913 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Cather, Willa. O Pioneers! Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913, pt. 1, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Cather, Willa. O Pioneers, edited by Sharon O'Brien. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, pt. 1, ch. 5.

Another quote from the 1910s

My center is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking.

Ferdinand Foch

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Aggression Battle
Speaker
Ferdinand Foch
Language
French
Time
1914 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Foch, Ferdinand. Message sent during the first Battle of the Marne. 8 Sept. 1914.

Another quote about The human condition

Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.

William Blake

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The human condition Wisdom Happiness Sadness

Author

William Blake
Source
Poems from the Pickering Manuscript
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1805 1800s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Blake, William. "Auguries of Innocence." Songs of Innocence and Experience, with Other Poems. London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1866.

Current Citation

Blake, William. "Auguries of Innocence." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

Another quote from 1913

It's what we learn after we think we know it all that counts.

Frank McKinney Hubbard

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Life lessons Personal growth

Author

Frank McKinney Hubbard
Language
English
Time
1913 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Hubbard, Frank McKinney. "Abe Martin Says." The Fairmount News, c. 1913.