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

Author

Jane Austen
Source
Pride and Prejudice
Medium
Novel
Statement Type
Opening lines
Language
English
Time
1813 1810s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
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.

Another quote from the 1810s

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ozymandias

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Arrogance Hubris

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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Source
Ozymandias
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1818 1810s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Ozymandias." The Examiner. London: Leigh Hunt and John Hunt, 11 Jan. 1818, l. 11.

Current Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Ozymandias." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 11.

Another quote about Nature

Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.

Francis Bacon

Novum Organum

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Man and nature Nature

Author

Francis Bacon
Source
Novum Organum
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Paradox
Language
Latin
Time
1620 1620s 17th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Bacon, Francis. Novum Organum. London: John Beale, 1620, bk. 1, no. 3.

Current Citation

Bacon, Francis. The New Organon. Translated by Michael Silverthorne. Cambridge UP, 2000, bk. 1, no. 3.

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The great question that has never been answered…is what does a woman want?

Sigmund Freud

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Men and women
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Sigmund Freud
Statement Type
Question
Language
German
Time
1925 1920s 20th century
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Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Stated to Marie Bonaparte during their psychoanalytic session. 8 Dec. 1925.