Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

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Topic

Doubt and skepticism Evidence Appearance vs. reality

Speaker

Mr. Jaggers

Author

Charles Dickens

Source

Great Expectations

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1861 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Dickens, Charles. "Great Expectations." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, 18 May 1861, ch. 40.

Current Citation

Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 40.

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Another quote from the 1860s

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Topic
Never giving up Perseverance
Speaker
Mr. Avery

Author

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Source
Oldtown Folks
Medium
Novel
Statement Type
Advice
Language
English
Time
1869 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Oldtown Folks. Boston: Fields, Osgood, and Co., 1869, ch. 39.

Current Citation

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. "Oldtown Folks." Harriet Beecher Stowe: Three Novels: Uncle Tom's Cabin; The Minister's Wooing; Oldtown Folks. Library of America, 1982, ch. 39.

Another quote about Appearance vs. reality

He takes false shadows for true substances.

William Shakespeare

Titus Andronicus

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Topic
Credulity Deception Appearance vs. reality
Speaker
Marcus Andronicus

Author

William Shakespeare
Source
Titus Andronicus
Medium
Play
Genre
Tragedy (play)
Language
English
Time
1594 1590s 16th century
Era
European Renaissance
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Titus Andronicus. Sussex's Men, 1594, The Rose, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 2.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Titus Andronicus." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.

Another quote from 1861

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

Abraham Lincoln

First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln

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Topic
Democratic theory
Speaker
Abraham Lincoln
Source
First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln Presidential inaugural address
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1861 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1861, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "First Inaugral Address, March 4, 1861." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 2018.

Another quote of the following type Advice

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

Margaret Atwood

Surfacing

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Topic
Locus of control

Author

Margaret Atwood
Source
Surfacing
Medium
Novel
Statement Type
Advice
Language
English
Time
1972 1970s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing. McClelland and Stewart, 1972, ch. 27.