The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

W.B. Yeats

The Second Coming

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Topic

Decline of civilization Moral decline

Author

W.B. Yeats

Source

The Second Coming

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

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Ireland Europe

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Original Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "The Second Coming." The Dial, Nov. 1920.

Current Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "The Second Coming." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Things said or done long years ago,
Or things I did not do or say
But thought that I might say or do,
Weigh me down, and not a day
But something is recalled,
My conscience or my vanity appalled.

W.B. Yeats

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Topic
Remorse Regrets

Author

W.B. Yeats
Source
Vacillation
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1933 1930s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "Vacillation." The Winding Stair and Other Poems. The Macmillan Company, 1933, pt. 5, st. 2.

Current Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "Vacillation." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008, pt. 5, st. 2.

Another quote from the 1920s

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Topic
American character Americans Business
Speaker
Calvin Coolidge
Source
The Press Under a Free Government (Speech)
Medium
Speech
Language
English
Time
1925 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Coolidge, Calvin. "The Press Under a Free Government." American Society of Newspaper Editors meeting. 17 Jan. 1925, Washington, DC, USA.

Another quote from 1920

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

Margaret Sanger

Woman and the New Race

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Topic
Women's rights

Author

Margaret Sanger
Source
Woman and the New Race
Language
English
Time
1920 1920s 20th century
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Citation

Sanger, Margaret. Woman and the New Race. Brentano's, 1920, ch. 8.