Be good and you will be lonesome.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

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Holding to one's principles Loneliness Moral principles Morality

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Humorist Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Citation

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

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For the first time in her life she stood naked in the open air, at the mercy of the sun, the breeze that beat upon her, and the waves that invited her.

Kate Chopin

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Kate Chopin
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Medium
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Time
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Original Citation

Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1899, ch. 39.

Current Citation

Chopin, Kate. "The Awakening." The Awakening and Selected Stories. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 39.

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The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Genealogy of Morals

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The common man Morality

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
Genealogy of Morals
Genre
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Language
German
Time
1887 1880s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Zur Genealogie der Moral: Eine Streitschrift [On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic]. Leipzig: Verlag von C. G. Neumann, 1887, essay 1.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. On the Genealogy of Morals, translated by Michael A. Scarpitti. Penguin Classics, 2014, essay 1.