To be born is to be wrecked on an island.

J.M. Barrie

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The human condition

Author

J.M. Barrie

Source

The Coral Island

Language

English

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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Barrie, J. M. Quoted in The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean, by R. M. Ballantyne. James Nisbet and Co., 1913, preface.

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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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Time
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Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, June 1915, I. 51.

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Between us and excellence, the gods have placed the sweat of our brows.

Hesiod

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Hard work Excellence Character Virtue The human condition

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Source
Works and Days
Medium
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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Era
Classical antiquity
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Hesiod. Ἔργα καὶ Ἡμέραι [Works and Days]. c. 700 BC, l. 289.

Current Citation

Hesiod. "Works and Days." Theogony and Works and Days, translated by M. L. West. Oxford University Press, 2009, l. 289.

Another quote from 1913

It's what we learn after we think we know it all that counts.

Frank McKinney Hubbard

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Frank McKinney Hubbard
Language
English
Time
1913 1910s 20th century
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Hubbard, Frank McKinney. "Abe Martin Says." The Fairmount News, c. 1913.