The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Virginibus Puerisque

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Topic

Lies

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Source

Virginibus Puerisque

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1881 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Truth of Intercourse." Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881, pt. 1, ch. 4.

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The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a willful stranger;
My mistress still the open road
And the bright eyes of danger.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Topic
Adventure The open road

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1894 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Youth and Love." Songs of Travel. London: Chatto & Windus, 1896, st. 3.

Another quote from the 1880s

The truth is, that the law is always approaching, and never reaching, consistency. It is forever adopting new principles from life at one end, and it always retains old ones from history at the other, which have not yet been absorbed or sloughed off. It will become entirely consistent only when it ceases to grow.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Evolution of law Nature of law Law

Author

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Language
English
Time
1880 1880s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "Early Forms of Liability." 23 Nov. 1880, The Lowell Institute, Boston, MA, USA.

Current Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "Early Forms of Liability." The Common Law. Belknap Press, 2009.