One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Jane Austen

Emma

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Topic

Gender relations Men and women

Speaker

Emma Woodhouse

Author

Jane Austen

Source

Emma

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1816 1810s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Emma. Vol. 1, London: John Murray, 1816, ch. 9.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Emma, edited by Fiona Stafford. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 9.

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You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.

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Medium
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Time
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Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 3, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 15.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 15.

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Doubt grows with knowledge.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Statement Type
Paradox
Language
German
Time
1819 1810s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Individual Points." Ueber Kunst und Altersthum [On Art and Antiquity]. 1826, vol. 5, issue 3.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Maxims and Reflections, edited by Peter Hutchinson, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Penguin Classics, 1999, no. 281.

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Through his passion nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

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Source
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Medium
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Language
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Time
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Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold. Venus im Pelz [Venus in Furs]. Stuttgart, 1870.

Current Citation

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold. Venus in Furs, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Penguin Classics, 2000.