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There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist

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Topic

Hunting Human nature

Author

Charles Dickens

Source

Oliver Twist

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Dickens, Charles. "Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress." Bentley's Miscellany. London: Richard Bentley, July 1837, issue 5, ch. 10.

Current Citation

Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. Penguin, 2003, ch. 10.

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.

Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

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Topic

Dark side of human nature Duality of man

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 66.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. "Following the Equator." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 66.

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.

Necessity knows no law.

Mark Twain

The Innocents Abroad

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Topic

Desperation Causes of crime Crime Law

Author

Mark Twain

Source

The Innocents Abroad

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1869 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1869, ch. 51.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress. Random House Publishing Group, 2003, ch. 51.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

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Topic

Self-hatred Self-criticism Ego

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

Genre

Travel writing

Statement Type

Irony

Language

English

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 29.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. "Following the Equator." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 29.

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility

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Topic

Personal chemistry Connecting with others

Speaker

Marianne Dashwood

Author

Jane Austen

Source

Sense and Sensibility

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1811 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Austen, Jane, [published anonymously]. Sense and Sensibility. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Egerton, 1811, ch. 12.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 12.