What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done.

Sherlock Holmes

A Study in Scarlet

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Topic

Appearance vs. reality Reputation

Speaker

Sherlock Holmes

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source

A Study in Scarlet

Medium

Novel Magazine

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Study in Scarlet." Beeton's Christmas Annual. London: Ward Lock & Co., 1887.

Current Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2012, pt. 2, ch. 7.

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This is hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Topic
Generosity Nature of love

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Paradox
Language
German
Time
1883 1880s 19th century
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Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen [Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None]. Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeitzner, 1884, pt. 2.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, edited by Robert Pippin, translated by Adrian Del Caro. Cambridge University Press, 2006, pt. 2.

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I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets

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Wolf in sheep's clothing Looks are deceiving Appearance vs. reality

Author

William Shakespeare
Source
Sonnet 147 Shakespeare's Sonnets
Medium
Sonnet Poem
Language
English
Time
1609 1600s 17th century
Era
European Renaissance
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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 147, I. 13.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 147.