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Then one day there really was a wolf but when the boy shouted, they didn't believe him.

Aesop

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

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Topic

False alarms Alarmism

Author

Aesop

Source

The Boy Who Cried Wolf Aesop's Fables

Medium

Fable and fairytale

Genre

Children's literature

Language

Greek

Time

6th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 0

Original Citation

Aesop. "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Aesop's Fables. c. 600.

Current Citation

Aesop. "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Aesop's Fables. Oxford University Press, 2008.

He saw clearly how plain and simple—how narrow, even—it all was; but clearly, too, how much it all meant to him, and the special value of some such anchorage in one's existence. He did not at all want to abandon the new life and its splendid spaces, to turn his back on sun and air and all they offered him and creep home and stay there; the upper world was all too strong, it called to him still, even down there, and he knew he must return to the larger stage. But it was good to think he had this to come back to, this place which was all his own, these things which were so glad to see him again and could always be counted upon for the same simple welcome.

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows

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Topic

Home

Author

Kenneth Grahame

Source

The Wind in the Willows

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, 1908, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Barnes & Noble, 2013, ch. 5.

Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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Topic

Alienating work Work

Author

Mark Twain

Source

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature Adventure novel

Language

English

Time

1876 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, edited by Peter Stoneley. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 2.

"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing wax—
Of cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings."

Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking-Glass

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Topic

Conversation

Author

Lewis Carroll

Source

Through the Looking-Glass

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature

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. 4.

Current Citation

Carroll, Lewis. "Through the Looking-Glass." Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass. Macmillan Collector's Library, 2016, ch. 4.

What do you mean, less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Nothing is absolutely the limit of nothingness. It's the lowest you can go. It's the end of the line. How can something be less than nothing? If there were something that was less than nothing, then nothing would not be nothing, it would be something-even though it's just a very little bit of something. But if nothing is nothing, then nothing has nothing that is less than it is.

E. B. White

Charlotte's Web

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Topic

Nothingness

Speaker

Wilbur

Author

E. B. White

Source

Charlotte's Web

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

White, E. B. Charlotte's Web. Harper & Brothers, 1952, ch. 4.

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

Mark Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Topic

Embellishment Truth

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature Adventure novel

Language

English

Time

1884 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, edited by R. Kent Rasmussen. Penguin Classics, 2014, ch. 1.

It’s lovely to live on a raft.

Mark Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Topic

Boats

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature Adventure novel

Language

English

Time

1884 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, ch. 19.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, edited by R. Kent Rasmussen. Penguin Classics, 2014, ch. 19.

All kings is mostly rapscallions.

Mark Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Topic

Anti-monarchism

Speaker

Huckleberry Finn

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature Adventure novel

Language

English

Time

1884 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, ch. 23.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, edited by R. Kent Rasmussen. Penguin Classics, 2014, ch. 23.

In order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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Topic

Cultivating desire Coveting Advertising and marketing

Author

Mark Twain

Source

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature Adventure novel

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1876 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, edited by Peter Stoneley. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 2.

Curiouser and curiouser!

Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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Topic

The mysterious

Author

Lewis Carroll

Source

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1865 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan, 1865, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Puffin Books, 2015, ch. 2.

It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a little kind of a low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

Mark Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Topic

Killing time Rivers

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature Adventure novel

Language

English

Time

1884 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, ch. 12.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, edited by R. Kent Rasmussen. Penguin Classics, 2014, ch. 12.

Begin at the beginning...and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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Author

Lewis Carroll

Source

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature

Statement Type

Orders and commands

Language

English

Time

1865 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan, 1865, ch. 12.

Current Citation

Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Puffin Books, 2015, ch. 12.

I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before.

Mark Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Topic

Escape Wide open spaces

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature Adventure novel

Language

English

Time

1884 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, ch. 43.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, edited by R. Kent Rasmussen. Penguin Classics, 2014, ch. 43.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

Mark Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Topic

Interpretation and analysis Literature

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature Adventure novel

Statement Type

Warning

Language

English

Time

1884 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, notice.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, edited by R. Kent Rasmussen. Penguin Classics, 2014, notice.

You have been my friend... That in itself is a tremendous thing.

E. B. White

Charlotte's Web

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Topic

Friendship

Speaker

Charlotte

Author

E. B. White

Source

Charlotte's Web

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

White, E. B. Charlotte's Web. Harper & Brothers, 1952, ch. 21.

"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."

Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking-Glass

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Topic

Nature of reality Logic

Author

Lewis Carroll

Source

Through the Looking-Glass

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature

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. 4.

Current Citation

Carroll, Lewis. "Through the Looking-Glass." Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass. Macmillan Collector's Library, 2016, ch. 4.

I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.

Rudyard Kipling

The Elephant's Child

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Topic

Questions

Author

Rudyard Kipling

Source

The Elephant's Child Just So Stories

Medium

Short story

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "The Elephant's Child." Just So Stories. Macmillan and Co., 1902.

Current Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "The Elephant's Child." The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling. Wordsworth Editions, 1999.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Dr. Seuss

The Lorax

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Topic

Change starts at home Changing the world

Author

Dr. Seuss

Source

The Lorax

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Seuss, Dr. The Lorax. Random House, 1971.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Dr. Seuss

Oh, the Places You'll Go!

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Topic

Feeling empowered Decisions and choices

Author

Dr. Seuss

Source

Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1990 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Seuss, Dr. Oh, the Places You'll Go! Random House, 1990.

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows

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Topic

Vacation Time off Taking it easy

Author

Kenneth Grahame

Source

The Wind in the Willows

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature

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.