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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Speaker
Andrew Jackson
Medium
Speech
Genre
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Language
English
Time
1832 1830s 19th century
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You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

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Mostly Harmless

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Learning from mistakes Mistakes

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Douglas Adams
Source
Mostly Harmless
Medium
Novel
Genre
Science fiction
Statement Type
Joke
Language
English
Time
1992 1990s 20th century
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Citation

Adams, Douglas. Mostly Harmless. William Heinemann/Harmony Books, 1992, ch. 11.