Trifles make the sum of life.

Charles Dickens

The Personal History of David Copperfield

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Topic

The little things Life

Author

Charles Dickens

Source

The Personal History of David Copperfield

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story

Language

English

Time

1850 1850s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Dickens, Charles. The Personal History of David Copperfield. London: Bradbury & Evans, Sept. 1850, issue 17, ch. 53.

Current Citation

Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield, edited by Jeremy Tambling. Penguin Classics, 2004, ch. 53.

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An opinion that corn-dealers are starvers of the poor, or that private property is robbery, ought to be unmolested when simply circulated through the press, but may justly incur punishment when delivered orally to an excited mob assembled before the house of a corn-dealer.

John Stuart Mill

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On Liberty
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Genre
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Language
English
Time
1859 1850s 19th century
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Original Citation

Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: J.W. Parker and Son, 1859, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 3.

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For every thing that lives is Holy.

William Blake

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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The sacred Life

Author

William Blake
Source
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Medium
Poem
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
English
Time
1794 1790s 18th century
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Blake, William. "A Song of Liberty." The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. c. 1794.

Current Citation

Blake, William. "A Song of Liberty." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V. Erdman. University of California Press, 2008.