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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Christopher Marlowe

Hero and Leander

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Topic

Love at first sight Love

Author

Christopher Marlowe

Source

Hero and Leander

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1593 1590s 16th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Marlowe, Christopher and George Chapman. Hero and Leander. London: Paul Linley, 1598.

Current Citation

Marlow, Christopher and George Chapman. "Hero and Leander." The Complete Poems and Translations. Penguin Classics, 2007.

Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar

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Topic

Betrayal Loyalty Patriotism Rome

Speaker

Brutus

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Julius Caesar

Medium

Play

Genre

History (play) Tragedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1599 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, 1599, Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 2.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Julius Caesar." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.

There ain't any answer, there ain't going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.

Gertrude Stein

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Topic

Meaning of life

Author

Gertrude Stein

Source

Brewsie and Willie

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Stein, Gertrude. Brewsie and Willie. Random House, 1946, ch. 5.

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

Norman Maclean

A River Runs Through It

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Topic

Interconnectedness of all things Rivers

Author

Norman Maclean

Source

A River Runs Through It

Medium

Novella

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Maclean, Norman. "A River Runs Through it." A River Runs Through It and Other Stories. University of Chicago Press, 1976.

What did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?

Robert Hayden

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Topic

Love

Author

Robert Hayden

Source

Those Winter Sundays

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hayden, Robert. "Those Winter Sundays." A Ballad of Remembrance. Paul Breman, 1962, I. 13.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

On Conciliation with America

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Topic

Political compromise Political theory

Speaker

Edmund Burke

Source

On Conciliation with America

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1775 1770s 18th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Conciliation with America." House of Commons. 22 Mar. 1775, Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London, England, UK.

Current Citation

Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far and it's cowardice.

George Jackson

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Topic

Fighting injustice

Author

George Jackson

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Jackson, George. Letter to Mother and Father. 2 May 1965.

The groves were God's first temples.

William Cullen Bryant

A Forest Hymn

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Topic

The forest Trees

Author

William Cullen Bryant

Source

A Forest Hymn

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1824 1820s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Bryant, William Cullen. "A Forest Hymn." United States Literary Gazette, 1824, I. 1.

And while I at length debate and beate the bush,
There shall steppe in other men and catche the burdes.

John Heywood

Proverbs (Heywood)

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Topic

Opportune time Shoot your shot

Author

John Heywood

Source

Proverbs (Heywood)

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1580 1580s 16th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Heywood, John. The Proverbs of John Heywood. London: George Bell and Sons, 1874, pt. 1, ch. 3.

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.

Lord Chesterfield

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Topic

Doing a good job

Author

Lord Chesterfield

Source

Letters of Lord Chesterfield

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1746 1740s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to His Son. 10 Mar. 1746.

But miserable most, to love unloved?
This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Topic

Unrequited love Dangers of love Love

Speaker

Helena

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1599 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1599, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 2.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.

Zora Neale Hurston

Dust Tracks on a Road

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Topic

Experiencing things

Author

Zora Neale Hurston

Source

Dust Tracks on a Road

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks on a Road. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1942, ch. 16.

In order to gain and to hold the esteem of men it is not sufficient merely to possess wealth or power. The wealth or power must be put in evidence, for esteem is awarded only on evidence.

Thorstein Veblen

The Theory of the Leisure Class

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Topic

Status games Consumerism

Author

Thorstein Veblen

Source

The Theory of the Leisure Class

Genre

Sociology Economic literature

Language

English

Time

1899 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions. Macmillan, 1899, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class, edited by Martha Banta. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 3.

Like everybody who is not in love, he imagined that one chose the person whom one loved after endless deliberations and on the strength of various qualities and advantages.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Topic

Nature of love

Author

Marcel Proust

Source

Sodom and Gomorrah In Search of Lost Time

Medium

Novel

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

French

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. Sodom and Gomorrah. Paris: Grasset/Gallimard, 1921-1922.

Current Citation

Proust, Marcel. Sodom and Gomorrah, translated by John Sturrock. Penguin Classics, 2005.

I am an invisible man... I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids-and I might even be said to posses a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man

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Topic

Black experience

Author

Ralph Ellison

Source

Invisible Man

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Ellison, Ralph Waldo. Invisible Man. Random House, 1952, prologue.

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations-one can do either this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it-you will regret both.

Soren Kierkegaard

Either/Or

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Topic

Decisions and choices Regrets

Author

Soren Kierkegaard

Source

Either/Or

Genre

Philosophical literature

Statement Type

Advice

Language

Danish

Time

1843 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren [published as Victor Eremita]. Enten-Eller [Either/Or]. Vol. 2, Copenhagen: University bookshop, 1843.

Current Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. Either/Or: A Fragment of Life, translated by Alistair Hanny. Penguin Classics, 1992, pt. 2.

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Topic

Living inauthentically

Author

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Source

Gift from the Sea

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow. Gift from the Sea. Pantheon Books, 1955, ch. 2.

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Topic

Never giving up Perseverance

Speaker

Mr. Avery

Author

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Source

Oldtown Folks

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1869 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Oldtown Folks. Boston: Fields, Osgood, and Co., 1869, ch. 39.

Current Citation

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. "Oldtown Folks." Harriet Beecher Stowe: Three Novels: Uncle Tom's Cabin; The Minister's Wooing; Oldtown Folks. Library of America, 1982, ch. 39.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw

Plays Unpleasant

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Topic

Unrequited love Challenges of love

Speaker

Leonard Charteris

Author

George Bernard Shaw

Source

The Philanderer Plays Unpleasant

Medium

Play

Genre

Satire

Language

English

Time

1898 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. "The Philanderer." Plays Unpleasant. Penguin Classics, 2001, act 2. Originally published by Grant Richards, 1898.

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

Langston Hughes

Dreams

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Topic

Dreams

Author

Langston Hughes

Source

Dreams The World Tomorrow

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1923 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hughes, Langston. “Dreams.” The World Tomorrow, May 1923, I. 1.

Current Citation

Hughes, Langston. “Dreams.” The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on Art, Race, Politics, and World Affairs. Vol. 9, University of Missouri Press, 2001.