Constancy in love is a good thing, but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

Charles Dickens

Bleak House

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Topic

Consistency Diligence Love

Speaker

John Jarndyce

Author

Charles Dickens

Source

Bleak House

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1852 1850s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. London: Bradbury & Evans, June 1852, issue 4, ch. 13.

Current Citation

Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 13.

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If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

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Topic
Government Human nature Political theory Politics

Author

Abraham Lincoln
Source
Journals of Abraham Lincoln
Medium
Personal journal
Language
English
Time
1854 1850s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Fragment: On Government." 1 July 1854?

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Fragment on Government, 1854?" Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing

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Love as trap Dangers of love Love
Speaker
Hero

Author

William Shakespeare
Source
Much Ado About Nothing
Medium
Play
Genre
Comedy (play)
Language
English
Time
1600 1600s 16th century
Era
European Renaissance
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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Much Ado About Nothing. London: Andrew Wise and William Aspley, 1600, act 3, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Much Ado About Nothing." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 1.