As she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years hence.

Charles Dickens

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

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Topic

Mistakes Perspective

Speaker

Mrs. Squeers

Author

Charles Dickens

Source

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1838 1830s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. London: Chapman and Hall, May 1838, issue 3, ch. 9.

Current Citation

Dickens, Charles. Nicholas Nickleby, edited by Mark Ford. Penguin, 1999, ch. 9.

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Another quote from the 1830s

Our country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind.

William Lloyd Garrison

Quoted in The Liberator

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Topic
Citizens of the world Globalism
Speaker
William Lloyd Garrison
Source
The Liberator
Medium
Newspaper
Language
English
Time
1837 1830s 19th century
Authentication Score 1
Citation

Garrison, William Lloyd. Motto of The Liberator. 1831.

Another quote about Mistakes

Experience keeps a dear school, yet Fools will learn In no other.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Topic
Learning from mistakes Mistakes Life experience Learning Fools

Author

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)
Source
Poor Richard's Almanack
Medium
Almanac
Statement Type
Proverbs, aphorisms and adages
Language
English
Time
1743 1740s 18th century
Era
Colonial America
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1743.

Current Citation

Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1743." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.