I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Jane Austen

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Misanthropy

Author

Jane Austen

Source

Letters of Jane Austen

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1798 1790s 18th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Letter to Cassandra Austen. 24 Dec. 1798.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Letters of Jane Austen, edited by Lord Brabourne. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen

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Time
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Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 1.

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We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

John Adams

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John Adams
Source
Letters of John Adams
Medium
Letter
Language
English
Time
1798 1790s 18th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Adams, John. Letter to the Officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts. 11 Oct. 1798.