There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

Of Human Bondage

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Topic

Love Relationships

Speaker

Philip Carey

Author

W. Somerset Maugham

Source

Of Human Bondage

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Maugham, William Somerset. Of Human Bondage. George H. Doran Company, 1915, ch. 71.

Current Citation

Maugham, William Somerset. Of Human Bondage. Signet, 2007, ch. 71.

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Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky.

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Source
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Medium
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Language
English
Time
1915 1910s 20th century
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Original Citation

Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, June 1915, I. 1.

Current Citation

Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." The Waste Land and Other Poems. Vintage, 2021, I. 1.

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My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red...
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

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Shakespeare's Sonnets

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William Shakespeare
Source
Sonnet 130 Shakespeare's Sonnets
Medium
Sonnet Poem
Statement Type
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Language
English
Time
1609 1600s 17th century
Era
European Renaissance
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 130, I. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 130.

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Truth is the first casualty in war.

Ethel Snowden

Women and War

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Topic
War and truth

Author

Ethel Snowden
Source
Women and War
Language
English
Time
1915 1910s 20th century
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Citation

Snowden, Ethel. "Women and War." Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the National Education Association. 1915.