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

Occupation

Sportswriter Writer

From

Canada

Authentication Score 3

Citation

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

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ––
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken

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Topic
Taking a different path Following the crowd

Author

Robert Frost
Source
The Road Not Taken
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1916 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Frost, Robert. "The Road Not Taken." Mountain Interval. Henry Holt, 1916, st. 4, I. 3.

Current Citation

Frost, Robert. "The Road Not Taken." Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays, edited by Richard Poirier and Mark Richardson. Library of America, 1995, st. 4, I. 3.

Another quote from 1919

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

Sherwood Anderson

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Topic
Looking for love
Speaker
Stranger

Author

Sherwood Anderson
Source
Tandy
Medium
Short story
Language
English
Time
1919 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Anderson, Sherwood. "Tandy." Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life. B. W. Huebsch, 1919.

Current Citation

Anderson, Sherwood. "Tandy." Winesburg, Ohio, edited by Marc K. Dudley. W. W. Norton & Company, 2023.