I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

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Topic

Cowardice Bad decisions

Speaker

Pip

Author

Charles Dickens

Source

Great Expectations

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story

Language

English

Time

1860 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, 22 Dec. 1860, issue 4, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 6.

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O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting.

Walt Whitman

O Captain! My Captain!

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Abraham Lincoln American Civil War

Author

Walt Whitman
Source
O Captain! My Captain!
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1865 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Whitman, Walt. "My Captain." The Saturday Press, 4 Nov. 1865.

Current Citation

Whitman, Walt. "O Captain! My Captain!" Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, I. 1.

Another quote from 1860

Norman oughte be iuge in his owne cause.

Reginald Pecock

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Topic
Moral hazard

Author

Reginald Pecock
Source
The Repressor of Over Much Blaming of the Clergy
Language
English
Time
1860 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Pecock, Reginald. The Repressor of Over Much Blaming of the Clergy. Vol. 2, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860.

Current Citation

Pecock, Reginald. The Repressor of Over Much Blaming of the Clergy 2 Volume Set, edited by Churchill Babington. Vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, 2012.