Wear dark clothes after 6 p. M. Eat fresh fish for breakfast when available. Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes premature gray hair. Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the Lord.

John Cheever

The Wapshot Chronicle

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Topic

How to live

Speaker

Leander Wapshot

Author

John Cheever

Source

The Wapshot Chronicle

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

Occupation

Writer

From

United States

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Cheever, John. The Wapshot Chronicle. Harper & Brothers, 1957, ch. 37.

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Medium
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Genre
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Time
1950 1950s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

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If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

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Topic
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Source
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Genre
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Statement Type
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Language
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Time
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Authentication Score 2
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, 1885, pt. 4.

Current Citation

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