1862

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My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destory slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

Abraham Lincoln

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Topic

American Civil War

Author

Abraham Lincoln

Source

Letters of Abraham Lincoln

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. Letter to Horace Greeley. 22 Aug. 1862.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "To Horace Greeley, August 22 1862." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

No graven images may be
Worshipped, except the currency.

Arthur Hugh Clough

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Topic

Love of money Money

Author

Arthur Hugh Clough

Language

English

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Clough, Arthur Hugh. "The Latest Decalogue." Poems. Macmillan and Company, 1862, I. 3.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

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Topic

Love and life Love Life

Speaker

Le Roi, Francis I, king of France

Author

Victor Hugo

Source

Le Roi S'amuse

Medium

Play

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

French

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hugo, Victor. Le roi s'amuse [The King Amuses Himself]. 22 Nov. 1832, La Comédie Française, Paris, France, act 2, sc. 4.

Current Citation

Hugo, Victor. "The King Amuses Himself." Three Plays by Victor Hugo, translated by Camilla Crosland and Frederick L. Slous. Washington Square Press, 1964.

I agree with no man's opinions... I have some of my own.

Ivan Turgenev

Fathers and Sons

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Topic

Thinking for oneself

Speaker

Yevgény Vasílevich Bazárov

Author

Ivan Turgenev

Source

Fathers and Sons

Medium

Novel

Language

Russian

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Turgenev, Ivan. "Отцы и дети [Fathers and Sons]." The Russian Messenger, 1862.

Current Citation

Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers and Sons, translated by Richard Freeborn. Oxford University Press, 2008.

The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.

Matthew Arnold

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Topic

Poetry

Author

Matthew Arnold

Language

English

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Arnold, Matthew. "On Translating Homer: Last Words." 1862, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.

Current Citation

Arnold, Matthew. "On Translating Homer: Last Words 1862." Culture and Anarchy and Other Selected Prose. Penguin Classics, 2015.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war!

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Topic

Business

Author

Christian Nestell Bovee

Source

Institutions and Summaries of Thought

Language

English

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Bovee, Chrisitan Nestell. Intuitions and Summaries of Thought. Vol. 1, New York: Sheldon and Company/Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1862.