Novel

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Blessed be he that invented sleep.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote

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Topic

Sleep

Speaker

Sancho Panza

Author

Miguel de Cervantes

Source

Don Quixote

Medium

Novel

Language

Spanish

Time

1615 1610s 17th century

Era

Spanish Golden Age

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. Segunda Parte Del ingenioso caballero don Quixote de la Mancha [The Second Part of Don Quixote de la Mancha]. Spain: Francisco de Robles, 1615.

Current Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote, translated and edited by John Rutherford. Penguin Classics, 2003.

One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.

Jane Austen

Persuasion

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Topic

Relativism Custom and convention

Speaker

Admiral Croft

Author

Jane Austen

Source

Persuasion

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1817 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Persuasion. London: John Murray, 1818, ch. 13.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Persuasion. Penguin, 2003, ch. 13.

The sooner every party breaks up, the better.

Jane Austen

Emma

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Topic

Parties Misanthropy

Speaker

Mr. Woodhouse

Author

Jane Austen

Source

Emma

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1816 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Emma. Vol. 2, London: John Murray, 1816, ch. 7.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Emma, edited by Fiona Stafford. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 7.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

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Topic

Selfishness Theory vs. practice

Speaker

Fitzwilliam Darcy

Author

Jane Austen

Source

Pride and Prejudice

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1813 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 3, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 16.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 16.

By loving people without cause he discovered indubitable causes for loving them.

Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace

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Topic

Loving others Selflessness Love

Author

Leo Tolstoy

Source

War and Peace

Medium

Novel

Language

Russian

Time

1869 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. "Война и миръ [War and Peace]." The Russian Messenger, 1865-1867. Serial.

Current Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Oxford University Press, 2010.

All partings foreshadow the great final one.

Charles Dickens

Bleak House

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Topic

Saying goodbye Death

Author

Charles Dickens

Source

Bleak House

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1853 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. London: Bradbury & Evans, Aug. 1853, issue 18, ch. 58.

Current Citation

Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 58.

There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote

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Topic

Everyone's a critic Gossip

Author

Miguel de Cervantes

Source

Don Quixote

Medium

Novel

Language

Spanish

Time

1605 1600s 16th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. Segunda Parte Del ingenioso caballero don Quixote de la Mancha [The Second Part of Don Quixote de la Mancha]. Spain: Francisco de Robles, 1615.

Current Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote, translated and edited by John Rutherford. Penguin Classics, 2003.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness, and that, for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Topic

Freedom Happiness The masses Human nature

Author

George Orwell

Source

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Medium

Novel

Genre

Dystopian fiction

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 3, ch. 3.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Topic

Confession Redemption

Author

Oscar Wilde

Source

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Medium

Novel Magazine

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1890 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Philadelphia, July 1890, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 8.

I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says:
"Yes, the little ones does."

Mark Twain

Tom Sawyer Abroad

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Topic

Realpolitik International politics Politics

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Tom Sawyer Abroad

Medium

Novel

Genre

Adventure novel

Language

English

Time

1894 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Twain, Mark. Tom Sawyer Abroad. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1894.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. "Tom Sawyer Abroad." Mark Twain: The Gilded Age & Later Novels, edited by Hamlin Hill. Library of America, 2002.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights

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Topic

Soulmates The soul Love Connecting with others Relationships

Speaker

Catherine Earnshaw

Author

Emily Brontë

Source

Wuthering Heights

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Brontë, Emily, [published as Ellis Bell]. Wuthering Heights. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847, ch. 9.

Current Citation

Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights, edited by Alexandra Lewis. W. W. Norton & Company, 2019, ch. 9.

We must cultivate our garden.

Voltaire

Candide

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Topic

Gardens Simple living

Speaker

Candide

Author

Voltaire

Source

Candide

Medium

Novel

Genre

Satire

Language

French

Time

1759 1750s 18th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Voltaire. Candide, ou l'Optimisme [Candide: or, All for the Best]. Geneva: Gabriel Cramer, 1759, ch. 30.

Current Citation

Voltaire. Candide, edited by Nicholas Cronk. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016, ch. 30.

We cannot reform our forefathers.

George Eliot

Adam Bede

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Topic

Morality of the past The past Progress

Author

George Eliot

Source

Adam Bede

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1859 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Eliot, George. Adam Bede. Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1859, ch. 53.

Current Citation

Eliot, George. Adam Bede, edited by Carol A. Martin. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 53.

We cannot all be friars, and many are the ways by which God leads his own to eternal life. Knight-errantry is religion.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote

To Sancho Panza, on his asking whether, to get to heaven, we should all become monks.

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Topic

Vocation God and man Eternal life

Speaker

Don Quixote

Author

Miguel de Cervantes

Source

Don Quixote

Medium

Novel

Language

Spanish

Time

1615 1610s 17th century

Era

Spanish Golden Age

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha [The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha]. Madrid: Francisco de Robles, 1605.

Current Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote, translated and edited by John Rutherford. Penguin Classics, 2003.

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and, however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

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Topic

Marriage

Author

Jane Austen

Source

Pride and Prejudice

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1813 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 22.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 22.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

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Topic

Falling in love Being in love

Speaker

Fitzwilliam Darcy

Author

Jane Austen

Source

Pride and Prejudice

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1813 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 3, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 18.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 18.

No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Topic

Sadness

Author

Zora Neale Hurston

Source

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1937 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 0

Citation

Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1937, ch. 19.

Take away time is money, and what is left of England? Take away cotton is king, and what is left of America?

Victor Hugo

Les Miserables

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Topic

England America

Author

Victor Hugo

Source

Les Miserables

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables. Vol. 3, Bruxelles: A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie, 1862, bk. 4, ch. 4.

Current Citation

Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables. Wordsworth Editions, 1994, pt. 3, bk. 4, ch. 4.

Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.

Alice Walker

The Color Purple

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Nature of time Time

Author

Alice Walker

Source

The Color Purple

Medium

Novel

Genre

Epistolary novel

Language

English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Charles Dickens

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

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Topic

Saying goodbye Reuniting Yin and yang

Speaker

Nicholas Nickleby

Author

Charles Dickens

Source

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1838 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. London: Chapman and Hall, Mar. 1838, issue 1, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Dickens, Charles. Nicholas Nickleby, edited by Mark Ford. Penguin, 1999, ch. 3.