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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant, was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin.

Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams

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Topic

American Presidency American decline

Author

Henry Adams

Source

The Education of Henry Adams

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1907 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 17.

Current Citation

Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 17.

I believe that humor is a part of beauty.

Max Beckmann

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Nature of beauty Beauty Humor

Author

Max Beckmann

Source

Journals of Max Beckmann

Medium

Personal journal

Language

German

Time

1903 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Beckmann, Max. "August 23, 1903." Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950, edited by Barbara Copeland Buenger, University of Chicago Press, 1997, p. 27.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

Saki

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Hurting others Women Memory

Author

Saki

Source

Reginald on Besetting Sins

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1904 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Saki. "Reginald on Besetting Sins." Westminster Gazette, Sept. 1904.

Current Citation

Saki. "Reginald on Besetting Sins." Selected Stories of Saki. Everyman's Library, 2017.

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

Thomas Hardy

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Topic

War and peace War Peace

Author

Thomas Hardy

Source

The Dynasts

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1904 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Hardy, Thomas. The Dynasts. Vol. 1, MacMillan & Co., 1904, pt. 1, act 1, sc. 5.

If a lot of cures are suggested for a disease, it means that the disease is incurable.

Anton Chekhov

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Solving problems Disease

Speaker

Leonid Andreieveitch Gayev

Author

Anton Chekhov

Source

The Cherry Orchard

Medium

Play

Language

Russian

Time

1904 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Chekhov, Anton. Вишнёвый сад [The Cherry Orchard]. Directed by Konstantin Stanislavski. 17 Jan. 1904, Moscow Art Theatre, Moscow, Russia, act. 1.

Current Citation

Chekhov, Anton. "The Cherry Orchard." Plays: Ivanov; The Seagull' Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard, translated by Peter Carson. Penguin Classics, 2002, act 1.

There is nothing—absolute nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows

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Boats Killing time Hobbies

Speaker

Rat

Author

Kenneth Grahame

Source

The Wind in the Willows

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, 1908, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Barnes & Noble, 2013, ch. 1.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams

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Topic

Political theory Politics

Author

Henry Adams

Source

The Education of Henry Adams

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1907 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 12.

Current Citation

Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 12.

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

G.K. Chesterton

Orthodoxy

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Topic

Logic Reason

Author

G.K. Chesterton

Source

Orthodoxy

Genre

Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Chesterton, G.K. "Orthodoxy." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 1, Ignatius Press, 1986, ch. 4. Originally published in by John Lane Co., 1908.

The negroes are now Americans. Their ancestors came here years ago against their will, and this is their only country and their only flag. They have shown themselves anxious to live for it and to die for it.

William Howard Taft

Inaugural Address of William Howard Taft

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Black Americans Americans

Speaker

William Howard Taft

Source

Inaugural Address of William Howard Taft Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1909 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Taft, William Howard. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1909, Senate Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Man must work by the sweat of his brow whatever his class, and that should make up the whole meaning and purpose of his life and happiness and contentment.

Anton Chekhov

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Work Purpose of life

Speaker

Irina Sergeyevna Pozorova

Author

Anton Chekhov

Source

The Three Sisters

Medium

Play

Language

Russian

Time

1901 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Chekhov, Anton. Три сeстры́ [Three Sisters]. Directed by Knostatin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. 31 Jan. 1901, Moscow Art Theatre, Moscow, Russia, act 1.

Current Citation

Chekhov, Anton. "Three Sisters." Plays: Ivanov; The Seagull' Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard, translated by Peter Carson. Penguin Classics, 2002, act 1.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Jack London

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Topic

Charity Sacrifice

Author

Jack London

Source

My Confession The Road

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1907 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

London, Jack. "My Confession." The Road. MacMillan & Company, 1907.

Current Citation

London, Jack. "My Confession." The Road. Dover Publications, 2016.

To live is like to love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butler

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Topic

Life Love

Author

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

Source

Journals of Samuel Butler

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Butler, Samuel. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, edited by Henry Festing Jones. A. C. Fifield, 1912, ch. 14.

Mathematics takes us still further from what is human, into the region of absolute necessity, to which only the actual world, but every possible world, must conform.

Bertrand Russell

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Topic

Mathematics Laws of physics

Author

Bertrand Russell

Source

The Study of Mathematics The New Quarterly

Medium

Essay Magazine

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1907 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Russell, Bertrand. "The Study of Mathematics." The New Quarterly, Nov. 1907.

"If you believe," he shouted to them, "clap your hands; don't let Tink die."

James M. Barrie

Peter Pan

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Fairies

Speaker

Peter Pan

Author

James M. Barrie

Source

Peter Pan

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1904 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Barrie, James M. Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. Performed by Gerald du Maurier, Nina Boucicault, Joan Burnett, Christine Silver, A.W. Baskcomb, and Alice DuBarry. 27 Dec. 1904, Duke of York's Theatre, Westminster, London, England, UK, act 4.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

G.K. Chesterton

Orthodoxy

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Conservatism The only constant is change Change

Author

G.K. Chesterton

Source

Orthodoxy

Genre

Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Chesterton, G.K. "Orthodoxy." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 1, Ignatius Press, 1986, ch. 4. Originally published by John Lane Co., 1908.

All art is collaboration.

John Millington Synge

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Nature of art Art

Author

John Millington Synge

Source

The Playboy of the Western World

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1907 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Synge, John Millington. The Playboy of the Western World: A Comedy in Three Acts. J. W. Luce and Company, 1907, preface.

Current Citation

Synge, John Millington. "The Playboy of the Western World." The Playboy of the Western World and Two Other Irish Plays. Penguin Classics, 1997, preface.

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

O. Henry

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Women Men and women

Author

O. Henry

Source

Memoirs of a Yellow Dog

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1906 1900s 20th century

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Citation

O. Henry. "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog." The Four Million: A Collection of Short Stories. McClure, Phillips & Co., 1906.

General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgement or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Lochner v. New York

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Legal theory

Author

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Source

Lochner v. New York

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Dissenting opinion Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1905 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. Dissenting Opinion. Lochner v. New York. United States Reports, vol. 198, 17 Apr. 1905, pp. 74-76. Justia, https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/198/45/.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

George Bernard Shaw

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Topic

Revolution Tyranny

Author

George Bernard Shaw

Source

The Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion Man and Superman

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1903 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. "Man and Superman: Maxims for Revolutionists." Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021, preface. Originally published by Archibald and Constable & Co., Ltd, 1903.

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

O. Henry

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Nature of life

Author

O. Henry

Source

The Gift of the Magi

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1905 1900s 20th century

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Citation

O. Henry. "Gifts of the Magi." The Four Million: A Collection of Short Stories. McClure, Phillips & Co., 1906. Originally published in The New York Sunday World, 10 Dec. 1905.