1910s

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ––
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken

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Topic

Taking a different path Following the crowd

Author

Robert Frost

Source

The Road Not Taken

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1916 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Frost, Robert. "The Road Not Taken." Mountain Interval. Henry Holt, 1916, st. 4, I. 3.

Current Citation

Frost, Robert. "The Road Not Taken." Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays, edited by Richard Poirier and Mark Richardson. Library of America, 1995, st. 4, I. 3.

History is more or less bunk.

Henry Ford

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Topic

History

Speaker

Henry Ford

Source

Chicago Tribune

Medium

Interview Newspapers

Language

English

Time

1916 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Ford, Henry. Interviewed by Charles N. Wheeler. Chicago Tribune, 25 May 1916.

He was unheeded, happy and near to the wild heart of life.

James Joyce

The Egoist

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Topic

Happiness Contentment Being carefree

Author

James Joyce

Source

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The Egoist

Medium

Novel Magazine

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Joyce, James. "A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man." The Egoist. 2 Feb. 1914 - 1 Sept. 1915. Serial.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by John Paul Riquelme. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, ch. 4.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

T.S. Eliot

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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Topic

Routine Coffee Passage of time

Author

T.S. Eliot

Source

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, June 1915, I. 51.

Current Citation

Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." The Waste Land and Other Poems. Vintage, 2021, I. 51.

His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or reverie, he had heard their tale before.

James Joyce

The Egoist

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Topic

Being in love Memory

Author

James Joyce

Source

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The Egoist

Medium

Novel Magazine

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Joyce, James. "A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man." The Egoist. 2 Feb. 1914 - 1 Sept. 1915. Serial.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by John Paul Riquelme. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, ch. 2.

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Marthe Troly-Curtin

Phrynette Married

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Topic

Leisure Killing time Time

Author

Marthe Troly-Curtin

Source

Phrynette Married

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1912 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Troly-Curtin, Marthe. Phrynette Married. The Macmillan Company of Canada, 1912.

The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

Wilfred Owen

Dulce et Decorum Est

A Latin phrase, originally from Horace's Odes, meaning "it is sweet and fitting to die for the homeland."

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Dying for one's country Self-sacrifice Patriotism War

Author

Wilfred Owen

Source

Dulce et Decorum Est

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 0

Original Citation

Owen, Wilfred. "Dulce et Decorum Est." Poems by Wilfred Owen. Chatto & Windus, 1920.

Current Citation

Owen, Wilfred. "Dulce et Decorum Est." The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen. Random House UK, 2018.

Truth is the first casualty in war.

Ethel Snowden

Women and War

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Topic

War and truth

Author

Ethel Snowden

Source

Women and War

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Snowden, Ethel. "Women and War." Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the National Education Association. 1915.

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

Louis Brandeis

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Topic

Transparency in government

Author

Louis Brandeis

Source

What Publicity Can Do Harper's Magazine

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Brandeis, Louis. "What Publicity Can Do." Harper's Weekly, 20 Dec. 1913.

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

Frank McKinney Hubbard

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Topic

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.

To be born is to be wrecked on an island.

J.M. Barrie

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Topic

The human condition

Author

J.M. Barrie

Source

The Coral Island

Language

English

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Barrie, J. M. Quoted in The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean, by R. M. Ballantyne. James Nisbet and Co., 1913, preface.

I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.

Jack London

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Living life to the fullest Jumping in Living in fear Fear

Speaker

Polly

Author

Jack London

Source

The Turtles of Tasman

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1916 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

London, Jack. The Turtles of Tasman. Macmillan, 1916.

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?

W.H. Davies

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Topic

Taking one's time Slowing down Busyness Purpose of life Life

Author

W.H. Davies

Source

Leisure Songs of Joy and Others

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1911 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Davies, W. H. "Leisure." Songs of Joy and Others. A. C. Fifield, 1911.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Jack London

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Living life to the fullest

Speaker

Jack London

Language

English

Time

1916 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

London, Jack. Quoted in The Bulletin. 2 Dec. 1916.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

Sigmund Freud

Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

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Topic

Civilization

Author

Sigmund Freud

Source

Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

Medium

Lecture

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Einführung in die Psychoanalyse [Introduction to Psychoanalysis]. 1915-1917, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, lecture 1. Lecture series.

Current Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. W. W. Norton & Company, 1977, lecture 1.

Life does not consist mainly—or even largely—of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.

Mark Twain

Mark Twain's Autobiography

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Topic

Inner life Thoughts

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Mark Twain's Autobiography

Medium

Speech

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Autobiography. Vol. 1, Harper & Brothers, 1924.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. "New York, January 10, 1906." Autobiography of Mark Twain, edited by Harriet E. Smith, Benjamin Griffin, Victor Fischer, Michael Barry Frank, Sharon K. Goetz, Leslie Diane Myrick, and Robert Hirst. Vol. 1, University of California Press, 2010.

I want a girl just like the girl
That married dear old dad.

William Dillon

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Topic

Oedipal issues Mothers and sons

Author

William Dillon

Source

I Want a Girl

Medium

Song

Language

English

Time

1911 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Dillon, William. I Want a Girl (Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad). Composed by Harry Von Tilzer. Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co., 1911.

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

Ferdinand Foch

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Topic

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.

God at bottom is nothing but an exalted father.

Sigmund Freud

Totem and Taboo

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Nature of God God

Author

Sigmund Freud

Source

Totem and Taboo

Genre

Sociology

Language

German

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Totem und Tabu Einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker [Totem and Taboo Some Similarities in the Soul Life of the Wild and the Neurotic]. Beacon Press, 1913, ch. 4, sect. 6. Originally published in Imago, c. 1912.

Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky.

T.S. Eliot

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Adventure Beginning of a journey

Author

T.S. Eliot

Source

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, June 1915, I. 1.

Current Citation

Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." The Waste Land and Other Poems. Vintage, 2021, I. 1.