What are men to rocks and mountains?

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

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Men Spending time in nature Nature

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Elizabeth Bennet

Author

Jane Austen

Source

Pride and Prejudice

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1813 1810s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 2, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 4.

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 4.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

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Single men Men and women

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Jane Austen
Source
Pride and Prejudice
Medium
Novel
Statement Type
Opening lines
Language
English
Time
1813 1810s 19th century
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Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 1.

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This is a free country.

James Flint

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America

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James Flint
Medium
Letter
Language
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Time
1819 1810s 19th century
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Flint, James. Letter home. 28 June 1819.

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Nature abhors a vacuum.

Baruch Spinoza

Ethics

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Nature

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Baruch Spinoza
Source
Ethics
Medium
Treatise
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Axioms and precepts
Language
Latin
Time
1677 1670s 17th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Spinoza, Baruch. Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Desmonstrata [Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order]. 1677, pt. 1, prop. 15, note.

Current Citation

Spinoza, Benedict. Ethics, translated by Michael Silverthorne and Matthew J. Kinser. Cambridge University Press, 2018, pt. 1, prop. 15, note.

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There is only one question which really matters: why do bad things happen to good people?

Harold S. Kushner

When Bad Things Happen to Good People

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Problem of evil

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Harold S. Kushner
Source
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Statement Type
Question
Language
English
Time
1981 1980s 20th century
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Citation

Kushner, Harold. When Bad Things Happen to Good People. Schocken Books, 1981, ch. 1.