1898

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We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

Uncle Vanya

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Topic

Heaven The afterlife

Speaker

Sonya

Author

Anton Chekhov

Source

Uncle Vanya

Medium

Play

Language

Russian

Time

1898 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Chekhov, Anton. Dyadya Vanya. 1897, act 4.

Current Citation

Chekhov, Anton. "Uncle Vanya." Plays: Ivanov; The Seagull' Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard, translated by Peter Carson. Penguin Classics, 2002, act 4.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw

Plays Unpleasant

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Topic

Unrequited love Challenges of love

Speaker

Leonard Charteris

Author

George Bernard Shaw

Source

The Philanderer Plays Unpleasant

Medium

Play

Genre

Satire

Language

English

Time

1898 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. "The Philanderer." Plays Unpleasant. Penguin Classics, 2001, act 2. Originally published by Grant Richards, 1898.

To protect the workers in their inalienable rights to a higher and better life; to protect them, not only as equals before the law, but also in their health, their homes, their firesides, their liberties as men, as workers, and as citizens; to overcome and conquer prejudice and antagonism; to secure to them the right to life, and the opportunity to maintain that life; the right to be full sharers in the abundance which is the result of their brain and brawn, and the civilization of which they are the founders and the mainstay... The attainment of these is the glorious mission of the trade unions.

Samuel Gompers

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Topic

Workers Trade unions

Speaker

Samuel Gompers

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1898 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Gompers, Samuel. "Trade Unions - Their Philosophy." Jan. 1898, USA. Speech.

Current Citation

Gompers, Samuel. Quoted in The State and the Unions, written by Christopher Tomlins. Cambridge University Press, 1985, ch. 3.

Happiness is the deferred fulfillment of a prehistoric wish. That is why wealth brings so little happiness; money is not an infantile wish.

Sigmund Freud

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Topic

Happiness

Author

Sigmund Freud

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Definition

Language

German

Time

1898 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Letter to Wilhelm Fliess. 16 Jan. 1898.

Current Citation

Freud, Sigmund. The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1904, translated and edited by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. Harvard University Press, 1985.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Winston Churchill

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Topic

Near death experiences

Author

Winston Churchill

Source

The Malakand Field Force

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1898 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Churchill, Winston Spencer. The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War. London: Pearson Longman, 1898, ch. 10.

Current Citation

Churchill, Winston Spencer. The Story of the Malakand Field Force. Dover Publications, 2010, ch. 10.

I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky.

Oscar Wilde

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

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Topic

The sky

Author

Oscar Wilde

Source

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1898 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wilde, Oscar [Published as C.3.3.]. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. London: Leonard Smithers, 1898, pt. 1, st. 3.

Current Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "The Ballad of Reading Gaol." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008.

"Whom are you?" he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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Topic

Pretentiousness Sophistication

Author

George Ade

Language

English

Time

1898 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Ade, George. "The Steel Box." Chicago Record, 16 Mar. 1898.

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more—the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort—to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires—and expires, too soon, too soon—before life itself.

Joseph Conrad

Youth

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Topic

Youth Looking back

Author

Joseph Conrad

Source

Youth Blackwood's Magazine

Medium

Short story Magazine

Language

English

Time

1898 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Conrad, Joseph. "Youth: A Narrative." Blackwood's Magazine. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, Sept. 1898.

Current Citation

Conrad, Joseph. "Youth." Heart of Darkness and Other Tales, edited by Cedric Watts. Oxford University Press, 2008.

The labour of women in the house, certainly enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Topic

Oppression of women Men and women

Author

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Genre

Economic literature

Language

English

Time

1898 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1898, ch. 1.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings, Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

John Muir

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Topic

Spending time in nature Nature

Author

John Muir

Source

The Yellowstone National Park The Atlantic

Medium

Essay Magazine

Genre

Nature writing

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1898 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Muir, John. "The Yellowstone National Park." Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898.

Current Citation

Muir, John. "The Yellowstone National Park." Our National Parks. Dover Publications, 2019.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw

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Topic

Locus of control Turning dreams into reality

Speaker

Vivie

Author

George Bernard Shaw

Source

The Philanderer Plays Unpleasant

Medium

Play

Genre

Drama (play) Satire

Language

English

Time

1898 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. "The Philanderer." Plays Unpleasant. London: Grant Richards, 1898, act 2.

Current Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. "Mrs. Warren's Profession." Plays Unpleasant. Penguin Classics, 2001, act 2.

There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success.

Winston Churchill

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Topic

Apocalypticism

Author

Winston Churchill

Source

The Malakand Field Force

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1898 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Churchill, Winston Spencer. The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War. London: Pearson Longman, 1898, ch. 16.

Current Citation

Churchill, Winston Spencer. The Story of the Malakand Field Force. Dover Publications, 2010, ch. 16.

The book of nature tells us distinctly that God cares not a rap for us—nor for any living creature.

Mark Twain

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Topic

Divine indifference Problem of evil God and man God

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Journals of Mark Twain

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1898 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 31. Originally from Notebook, c. 1898.

The New Testament, and to a very large extent the Old, is the soul of man. You cannot criticize it. It criticizes you.

John Jay Chapman

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Topic

The Bible

Author

John Jay Chapman

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1898 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Chapman, John Jay. Letter to Elizabeth Chanler. 26 Mar. 1898.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

George Bernard Shaw

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Topic

Unity of all religion Religion

Author

George Bernard Shaw

Source

Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1898 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant. 1898, vol. 2, preface.

Current Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. Plays Pleasant. Penguin, 2003, preface.