Novel

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Example is always more efficacious than precept.

Samuel Johnson

The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

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Topic

Learning by example

Speaker

Imlac

Author

Samuel Johnson

Source

The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1759 1750s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Johnson, Samuel. The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale. London: R. and J. Dodsley/W. Johnston, 1759, ch. 30.

Current Citation

Johnson, Samuel. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Penguin Classics, 2007, ch. 30.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Haruki Murakami

Norwegian Wood

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Topic

Thinking for oneself Thinking outside the box Books

Speaker

Nagasawa

Author

Haruki Murakami

Source

Norwegian Wood

Medium

Novel

Language

Japanese

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Murakami, Haruki. ノルウェイの森 [Norwegian Wood]. Kodansha, 1987.

If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose—because it contains all the others—the fact that they were the people who created the phrase 'to make money.' No other language or nation had ever used these words before... Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created.

Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged

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Topic

American character Americans

Speaker

Francisco d'Anconia

Author

Ayn Rand

Source

Atlas Shrugged

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged. Random House, 1957, pt. 2, ch. 2.

We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can't think what anybody sees in them.

Bilbo Baggins

Quoted in The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Topic

Adventure

Speaker

Bilbo Baggins

Author

J.R.R. Tolkien

Source

The Hobbit

Medium

Novel

Genre

Fantasy

Language

English

Time

1937 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Tolkiein, J.R.R. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. George Allen & Unwin, 1937, ch. 1.

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system-that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

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Topic

Courts Equality

Speaker

Atticus Finch

Author

Harper Lee

Source

To Kill a Mockingbird

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1960, ch. 20.

But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief. Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.

Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things

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Topic

Grief Forbidden love

Author

Arundhati Roy

Source

The God of Small Things

Medium

Novel

Genre

Post-colonial literature

Language

English

Time

1997 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Random House, 1997, ch. 20.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Willa Cather

The Song of the Lark

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Topic

Life lessons Learning Adversity

Speaker

Thea

Author

Willa Cather

Source

The Song of the Lark

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915, pt. 4, ch. 8.

Current Citation

Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Vintage, 1999, pt. 4, ch. 8.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.

Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar

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Topic

Self-knowledge Introspection

Speaker

Esther Greenwood

Author

Sylvia Plath

Source

The Bell Jar

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 0

Citation

Plath, Sylvia [published as Victoria Lucas]. The Bell Jar. William Heinemann, 1963.

Should I live for centuries, the sweet period of my youth would not be reborn, nor effaced from my memory.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Remembering one's youth Looking back Youth

Author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Source

Julie, or the New Heloise

Medium

Novel

Genre

Epistolary novel

Language

French

Time

1761 1760s 18th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Lettres de Deux Amans, habitans d'une petite Ville au pied des Alpes [Letters from two lovers, living in a small town at the foot of the Alps]. Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey, 1761, pt. 6, letter 7.

Current Citation

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Julie, or the New Heloise, translated by Philip Stewart and Jean Vache. Dartmouth College Press, 1997, pt. 6, letter 7.

A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.

Tom Wolfe

The Bonfire of the Vanities

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Topic

Criminal justice system Liberals and conservatives Liberals Conservatives

Author

Tom Wolfe

Source

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1984 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Wolfe, Tom. The Bonfire of the Vanities. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1987.

Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.

Khaled Hosseini

And the Mountains Echoed

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Topic

Beauty Randomness Good luck

Author

Khaled Hosseini

Source

And the Mountains Echoed

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2013 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Hosseini, Khaled. And The Mountains Echoed. Riverhead Books, 2013.

There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

Willa Cather

My Antonia

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Topic

American frontier America

Author

Willa Cather

Source

My Antonia

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Cather, Willa, My Ántonia. Houghton Mifflin, 1918, bk. 1, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. W. W. Norton & Co., 2015, bk. 1, ch. 1.

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

Daniel Defoe

Moll Flanders

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Topic

Vice Moral theory Morality

Author

Daniel Defoe

Source

Moll Flanders

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1722 1720s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Defoe, Daniel, [published anonymously]. Moll Flanders. London: William Rufus Chetwood, 1722.

Current Citation

Defoe, Daniel. Moll Flanders: A Norton Critical Edition, edited by Albert J. Rivero. W.W. Norton & Company, 2003.

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

C.S. Lewis

The Screwtape Letters

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Topic

Hell

Author

C.S. Lewis

Source

The Screwtape Letters

Medium

Novel

Genre

Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Lewis, C.S. The Screwtape Letters. Geoffrey Bles, 1942, letter 12.

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.

Stephen Chbosky

The Perks of Being a Walflower

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The only constant is change Life

Author

Stephen Chbosky

Source

The Perks of Being a Walflower

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Chbosky, Stephen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Pocket Books, 1999.

All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; for, after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunégonde, if you hadn’t been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn’t traveled across America on foot, if you hadn’t given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn’t lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn’t be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios.

Voltaire

Candide

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Topic

Interconnectedness of all things

Speaker

Pangloss

Author

Voltaire

Source

Candide

Medium

Novel

Genre

Satire

Language

French

Time

1759 1750s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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.

To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible punishment so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

House of the Dead

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Topic

Alienating work Alienation Absurdity Shitty jobs Work

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Source

House of the Dead

Medium

Novel

Language

Russian

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Записки из Мёртвого дома [The House of the Dead]." Vremya, 1860-1862.

Current Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The House of the Dead, translated by David McDuff. Penguin Classics, 1986.

Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

David Foster Wallace

Infinite Jest

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Uniqueness of each person

Author

David Foster Wallace

Source

Infinite Jest

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest. Little, Brown and Company, 1996.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Disenchanted world Progress

Speaker

Miss Dacre

Author

Benjamin Disraeli

Source

The Young Duke

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1831 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Disraeli, Benjamin. The Young Duke. Vol. 1, London: Henry Colburn, 1831, bk. 2, ch. 5.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Topic

Dreams The human condition

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. 1.