Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers.

Les fortes sottises sont souvent faits, comme les grosses cordes, d'une multitude de brins.

Victor Hugo

Les Miserables

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Topic

Mistakes

Author

Victor Hugo

Source

Les Miserables

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Poet Writer

From

France Europe

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Original Citation

Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables. Vol. 2, Bruxelles: A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie, 1862, bk. 5, ch. 10.

Current Citation

Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables. Wordsworth Editions, 1994, pt. 2, bk. 5, ch. 10.

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We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast. But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it’s one little room, like a bath house in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner, and that’s all eternity is?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Source
Crime and Punishment
Medium
Novel
Language
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Time
1866 1860s 19th century
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Original Citation

Dostoyevsky, Feodor. Преступленіе и наказаніе [Crime and Punishment]. The Russian Messenger, Jan. 1866 - Dec. 1866, monthly serial.

Current Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment, translated and edited by Michael R. Katz. W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.

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You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Douglas Adams

Mostly Harmless

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Learning from mistakes Mistakes

Author

Douglas Adams
Source
Mostly Harmless
Medium
Novel
Genre
Science fiction
Statement Type
Joke
Language
English
Time
1992 1990s 20th century
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Citation

Adams, Douglas. Mostly Harmless. William Heinemann/Harmony Books, 1992, ch. 11.

Another quote from 1862

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

Abraham Lincoln

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Author

Abraham Lincoln
Source
Second Annual Message to Congress
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1862 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Second Annual Message to Congress." 1 Dec. 1862, US Congress, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

Another quote originally in French

The pleasure of love is in the loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we arouse.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Reflections

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Loving others

Author

François de La Rochefoucauld
Source
Reflections
Medium
Epigram
Language
French
Time
1678 1670s 17th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

Current Citation

La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.