Whatever you are, try to be a good one.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Topic

Self-improvement Personal growth

Speaker

William Makepeace Thackeray

Source

A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

India Asia

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Citation

Thackeray, William Makepeace. Quoted in A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs, written by Laurence Hutton. London: Harper & Brothers, 1898.

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Source
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Time
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Original Citation

Crane, Stephen. "A Man Said to the Universe." War is Kind and Other Lines. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1899, I. 1.

Current Citation

Crane, Stephen. "A Man Said to the Universe." War is Kind and Other Lines. Dover Publications, 2016, I. 1.

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Author

Oliver Wendell Holmes
Source
The Chambered Nautilus The Atlantic
Medium
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Language
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Time
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Authentication Score 3
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