Marriage is like life in this-that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Read Virginibus Puerisque at Project Gutenberg

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Topic

Downsides of marriage Relationship challenges Marriage

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Source

Virginibus Puerisque

Medium

Essay

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1876 1870s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Virginibus Puerisque." The Cornhill Magazine, vol. 34, 1876, p. 176.

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We are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world....and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Topic
Friends Existential solitude Travel

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson
Source
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
Genre
Autobiography and memoir Travel writing
Language
English
Time
1879 1870s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1879.

Current Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Dover Publications, 2019.

Another quote about Marriage

These men and women...ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.

Anthony Kennedy

Obergefell v. Hodges

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Topic
Same sex marriage Marriage Constitutional law Gay rights Equal rights American politics

Author

Anthony Kennedy
Source
Obergefell v. Hodges
Medium
Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion
Genre
Legal writing
Language
English
Time
2015 2010s 21st century
Authentication Score 2
Citation

Kennedy, Anthony. United States, Supreme Court. Obergefell v. Hodges. United States Reports, vol. 576, 26 June 2015, no. 14-556, pp. 644-742. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/576/14-556/.

Another quote of the following type Metaphor, analogy and simile

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

Winston Churchill

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Topic
Cold War Soviet Union
Speaker
Winston Churchill
Source
Sinews of Peace
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1946 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Churchill, Winston. "Sinews of Peace." 5 Mar. 1946, Westminster College, Fulton, MO, USA. Speech.

Current Citation

Churchill, Winston. "The Soviet Danger: The Iron Curtain." Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches, edited by David Cannadine. Penguin Classics, 2007.