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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina

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Topic

Family dysfunction Family Parents and children

Author

Leo Tolstoy

Source

Anna Karenina

Medium

Novel

Language

Russian

Time

1877 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. Анна Каренина [Anna Karenina]. The Russian Messenger, 1875-1877. Serial.

Current Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Penguin Classics, 2014.

Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system—with all these exalted powers—Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

Charles Darwin

The Descent of Man

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Topic

Human origins Human nature Human evolution Evolution

Author

Charles Darwin

Source

The Descent of Man

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1871 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. London: John Murray, 1871, pt. 3, ch. 21.

Current Citation

Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man. Penguin Classics, 2004, pt. 3, ch. 21.

An invasion of armies can be resisted; an invasion of ideas cannot be resisted.

Victor Hugo

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Topic

Power of ideas

Author

Victor Hugo

Source

The History of a Crime

Language

French

Time

1878 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Hugo, Victor. Histoire d'un crime [The History of a Crime]. Paris: Calmann-Levy, c. 1878, conclusion, ch. 10.

Go West, young man.

Horace Greeley

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Topic

American West Manifest destiny

Author

Horace Greeley

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1870 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Greeley, Horace. Quoted in New-York Daily Tribune. 13 July 1865.

America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without.

Walt Whitman

Democratic Vistas

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Topic

American decline Societal collapse America

Author

Walt Whitman

Source

Democratic Vistas

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1871 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Whitman, Walt. Democratic Vistas. Washington D.C.: J. S. Redfield, 1871.

Current Citation

Whitman, Walt. Democratic Vistas, edited by Ed Folsom. University Of Iowa Press, 2009.

Life, what is it but a dream?

Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking-Glass

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Topic

Nature of life

Author

Lewis Carroll

Source

Through the Looking-Glass

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1871 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. London: Macmillan, 1871, ch. 12.

Current Citation

Carroll, Lewis. "Through the Looking-Glass." Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass. Macmillan Collector's Library, 2016, ch. 12.

The State is not "abolished", it withers away.

Friedrich Engels

Anti-Duhring

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Topic

Political theory Communism Government Politics

Author

Friedrich Engels

Source

Anti-Duhring

Genre

Political literature Philosophical literature

Statement Type

Bad predictions Prophecies and predictions

Language

German

Time

1878 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Engels, Frederick. "Herrn Eugen Dührings Umwälzung der Wissenschaft [Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science]." Vorwärts, 1878.

Current Citation

Engels, Frederick. "Anti-During." Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works. Vol. 25, Int Pub Co Inc, 1987, pt. 3, ch. 2.

We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams.

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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Topic

Dreamers Dreams

Author

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Source

Ode (O'Shaughnessy)

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1874 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

O'Shaughnessy, Arthur. "Ode." Music and Moonlight: Poems and Songs. London Chatto and Windus, 1874.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

Molly Bawn

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Topic

Preferences Beauty Relativism

Speaker

Marcia

Author

Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

Source

Molly Bawn

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1878 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Hungerford, Margaret Wolfe. Molly Bawn. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz/Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1878.

We are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world....and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Topic

Friends Existential solitude Travel

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Source

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

Genre

Autobiography and memoir Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1879 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1879.

Current Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Dover Publications, 2019.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Charles Dudley Warner

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Topic

Political coalitions Politics

Author

Charles Dudley Warner

Source

My Summer in a Garden

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1870 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Warner, Charles Dudley. My Summer in a Garden. Boston: James R Osgood, 1870, fifteenth week.

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Topic

Cosmopolitanism Criticism of one's country

Speaker

Benjamin Disraeli

Source

Speeches of Benjamin Disraeli

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1877 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Disraeli, Benjamin. Speech in London. 9 Nov. 1877, Mansion House, London, England, UK.

If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once, be dried up.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

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Topic

Disenchanted world

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Source

The Brothers Karamazov

Medium

Novel

Language

Russian

Time

1879 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Братья Карамазовы [The Brothers Karamazov]." The Russian Messenger, Jan. 1879 - Nov. 1880. Serial.

Current Citation

Dostoevsky, Feodor. The Brothers Karamazov, translated by David McDuff. Penguin Classics, 2003.

We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.

Charles Darwin

The Descent of Man

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Topic

Human origins Evolution

Author

Charles Darwin

Source

The Descent of Man

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1871 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. London: John Murray, 1871, pt. 3, ch. 21.

Current Citation

Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man. Penguin Classics, 2004, pt. 3, ch. 21.

Human existence is girt round with mystery: the narrow region of our experience is a small island in the midst of a boundless sea.

John Stuart Mill

The Utility of Religion

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Topic

The mysterious Mysteriousness of the universe The human condition

Author

John Stuart Mill

Source

The Utility of Religion

Medium

Essay

Genre

Philosophical literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1873 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Mill, John Stuart. "The Utility of Religion." Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1874.

Current Citation

Mill, John Stuart. "The Contest in America." Essays on Ethics, Religion and Society. Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, edited by John M. Robson. Vol. 10, Routledge, 2014.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community in which you live.

Edgar W. Howe

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Topic

Gossip Reputation

Speaker

Edgar W. Howe

Language

English

Time

1877 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Howe, Edgar W. Country Town Sayings: A Collection of Paragraphs from the Atchison Globe. Crane, 1911.

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina

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Topic

Self-discovery Introspection

Speaker

Alexei Alexandrovich

Author

Leo Tolstoy

Source

Anna Karenina

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Russian

Time

1877 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. Анна Каренина [Anna Karenina]. The Russian Messenger, 1875-1877. Serial.

Current Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Penguin Classics, 2014.

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

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Topic

Human needs Worship

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Source

The Brothers Karamazov

Medium

Novel

Language

Russian

Time

1879 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Братья Карамазовы [The Brothers Karamazov]." The Russian Messenger, Jan. 1879 - Nov. 1880. Serial.

Current Citation

Dostoevsky, Feodor. The Brothers Karamazov, translated by David McDuff. Penguin Classics, 2003.

When the views advanced by me in this volume, and by Mr. Wallace, or when analogous views on the origin of species are generally admitted, we can dimly foresee that there will be a considerable revolution in natural history.

Charles Darwin

On the Origin of Species

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Topic

Evolution

Author

Charles Darwin

Source

On the Origin of Species

Genre

Scientific literature

Statement Type

Prophecies and predictions

Language

English

Time

1879 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species. 6th Edition. London: John Murray, 1879, ch. 14.

Current Citation

Darwin, Charles. The Origin of the Species, edited by William Bynum. Penguin, 2009, ch. 14.

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our to-day.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Human, All Too Human

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Topic

Fate Destiny

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche

Source

Human, All Too Human

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1878 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Menschliches, Allzumenschliches: Ein Buch für freie Geister [Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits]. Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeizner, 1878, preface.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, translated by Marion Faber and Stephen Lehmann. University of Nebraska Press, 1984, preface.