If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied.

Rudyard Kipling

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Topic

World War I

Author

Rudyard Kipling

Source

Common Form

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1919 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Writer

From

Asia Europe

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Original Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "Common Form." The Years Between. Methuen and Co., 1919, I. 1.

Current Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "Common Form." Selected Poems of Rudyard Kipling. Penguin Classics, 2006, I. 1.

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They change their skies above them,
But not their hearts that roam!

Rudyard Kipling

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Topic
Limitations of travel Travel

Author

Rudyard Kipling
Source
The Native-Born
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1895 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "The Native-Born." London Times, 1895, st. 2.

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He was unheeded, happy and near to the wild heart of life.

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Topic
Happiness Contentment Being carefree

Author

James Joyce
Source
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The Egoist
Medium
Novel Magazine
Genre
Modernist literature
Language
English
Time
1915 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Joyce, James. "A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man." The Egoist. 2 Feb. 1914 - 1 Sept. 1915. Serial.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by John Paul Riquelme. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, ch. 4.

Another quote from 1919

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; but that is the way to bet.

Hugh Keough

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Topic
Winners and losers

Author

Hugh Keough
Language
English
Time
1919 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Keough, Hugh. Quoted in Collier's. Feb. 1919.