1887

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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

Lord Acton

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Abuse of power Power Great men Corruption

Speaker

Lord Acton

Source

Letters of Lord Acton

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Lord Acton. Letter to Archbishop Mandell Creighton. 5 Apr. 1887.

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Genealogy of Morals

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Topic

The common man Morality

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche

Source

Genealogy of Morals

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

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Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Zur Genealogie der Moral: Eine Streitschrift [On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic]. Leipzig: Verlag von C. G. Neumann, 1887, essay 1.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. On the Genealogy of Morals, translated by Michael A. Scarpitti. Penguin Classics, 2014, essay 1.

The broad effects which can obtained by punishment in man and beast are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but dos not make him "better."

Friedrich Nietzsche

Genealogy of Morals

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Topic

Punishment

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche

Source

Genealogy of Morals

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

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Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Zur Genealogie der Moral: Eine Streitschrift [On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic]. Leipzig: Verlag von C. G. Neumann, 1887, essay 2.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. On the Genealogy of Morals, translated by Michael A. Scarpitti. Penguin Classics, 2014, essay 2.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Mark Twain

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Topic

Confidence How to succeed Success

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Letters of Mark Twain

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Twain, Mark. Letter to Mrs. Foote. 2 Dec. 1887.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all of the evidence. It biases the judgement.

Sherlock Holmes

A Study in Scarlet

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Topic

Jumping to conclusions Evidence Judgment

Speaker

Sherlock Holmes

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source

A Study in Scarlet

Medium

Novel Magazine

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

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Original Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Study in Scarlet." Beeton's Christmas Annual. London: Ward Lock & Co., 1887.

Current Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2012, pt. 1, ch. 3.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Topic

Artistic expression Art

Author

Henry Ward Beecher

Source

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

Medium

Sermon

Language

English

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Beecher, Henry Ward. Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887.

What the deuce is it to me? You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

Sherlock Holmes

A Study in Scarlet

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Topic

Heliocentrism Things that don't matter

Speaker

Sherlock Holmes

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source

A Study in Scarlet

Medium

Novel Magazine

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

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Original Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Study in Scarlet." Beeton's Christmas Annual. London: Ward Lock & Co., 1887.

Current Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2012.

I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.

Sherlock Holmes

A Study in Scarlet

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Topic

Sadness Down days Depression

Speaker

Sherlock Holmes

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source

A Study in Scarlet

Medium

Novel Magazine

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Study in Scarlet." Beeton's Christmas Annual. London: Ward Lock & Co., 1887.

Current Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2012, pt. 1, ch. 1.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet

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Topic

Facts What really matters

Speaker

Sherlock Holmes

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source

A Study in Scarlet

Medium

Novel Magazine

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Study in Scarlet." Beeton's Christmas Annual. London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1887.

Current Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2012, pt. 1, ch. 2.

There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

Sherlock Holmes

A Study in Scarlet

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Topic

Revenge

Speaker

Sherlock Holmes

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source

A Study in Scarlet

Medium

Novel Magazine

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

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Original Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Study in Scarlet." Beeton's Christmas Annual. London: Ward Lock & Co., 1887.

Current Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2012, pt. 2, ch. 6.

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Language Words

Author

Henry Ward Beecher

Language

English

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Beecher, Henry Ward. "The Human Mind." Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. D. Appleton and Company, 1887.

War appears to be as old as mankind, but peace is a modern invention.

Henry Maine

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Topic

War and peace War Peace

Author

Henry Maine

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Maine, Henry. "International Law: Its Origin and Sources." Whewell Lecture. 1887, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, UK.

That great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

John Viscount Morley

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Topic

How to live The human condition

Speaker

John Viscount Morley

Language

English

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Morley, John. "Aphorisms." 11 Nov. 1887, The Edinburgh Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh, Scotland. Address.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

George Bernard Shaw

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Topic

Importance of money Money

Author

George Bernard Shaw

Source

The Irrational Knot Our Corner

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. "The Irrational Knot." Our Corner. 1885-1887, preface. Serial.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet

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London British empire

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source

A Study in Scarlet

Medium

Novel Magazine

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Study in Scarlet." Beeton's Christmas Annual. London: Ward Lock & Co., 1887.

Current Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2012, pt. 1, ch. 1.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done.

Sherlock Holmes

A Study in Scarlet

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Topic

Appearance vs. reality Reputation

Speaker

Sherlock Holmes

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source

A Study in Scarlet

Medium

Novel Magazine

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

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Original Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Study in Scarlet." Beeton's Christmas Annual. London: Ward Lock & Co., 1887.

Current Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2012, pt. 2, ch. 7.

Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Requiem

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Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Source

Requiem

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Epitaph

Language

English

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Requiem." Underwoods. New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons/London: Chatto & Windus, 1887, I. 1.