Why not seize the pleasure at once?-How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Jane Austen

Emma

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Topic

Going for it Missed opportunities Happiness

Speaker

Frank Churchill

Author

Jane Austen

Source

Emma

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1815 1810s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Emma. Vol. 2, London: John Murray, 1815, ch. 30.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Emma, edited by Fiona Stafford. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 30.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen

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Source
Pride and Prejudice
Medium
Novel
Statement Type
Opening lines
Language
English
Time
1813 1810s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

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

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 1.

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"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ozymandias

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Topic
Arrogance

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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Source
Ozymandias
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1818 1810s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Ozymandias." The Examiner. London: Leigh Hunt and John Hunt, 11 Jan. 1818, l. 10.

Current Citation

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There are no small steps in great affairs.

Jean-Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz

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Going for it Taking risks

Author

Jean-Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz
Genre
Autobiography and memoir
Language
French
Time
1717 1710s 18th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Gondi Paul De, Jean-Francois. Memoires du Cardinal de Retz [The Memoirs of the cardinal de Retz]. c. 1717, bk. 2.