1908

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He saw clearly how plain and simple—how narrow, even—it all was; but clearly, too, how much it all meant to him, and the special value of some such anchorage in one's existence. He did not at all want to abandon the new life and its splendid spaces, to turn his back on sun and air and all they offered him and creep home and stay there; the upper world was all too strong, it called to him still, even down there, and he knew he must return to the larger stage. But it was good to think he had this to come back to, this place which was all his own, these things which were so glad to see him again and could always be counted upon for the same simple welcome.

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows

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Topic

Home

Author

Kenneth Grahame

Source

The Wind in the Willows

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, 1908, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Barnes & Noble, 2013, ch. 5.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ecce Homo

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Topic

Resentment Envy

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche

Source

Ecce Homo

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Ecce homo: Wie man wird, was man ist [Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is]. Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1908.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is, translated by Duncan Large. Oxford University Press, 2009.

America is God's crucible, the great melting pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming!

Israel Zangwill

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Topic

Immigration America

Speaker

David Quixano

Author

Israel Zangwill

Source

The Melting Pot

Medium

Play

Genre

Drama (play) Drama

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Zangwill, Israel. The Melting Pot. 5 Oct. 1908, Columbia Theatre, Washington, DC, USA, act 1.

Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.

Ernest Shackleton

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Topic

Adversity

Author

Ernest Shackleton

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Shackleton, Ernest. Diary entry. 11 Dec. 1908.

"Nothing-so it seems to me," said the stranger, "is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life... The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of—of things longer."

Jerome K. Jerome

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Topic

Time tested love Love

Author

Jerome K. Jerome

Source

The Passing of the Third Floor Back

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Jerome, Jerome Klapka. The Passing of the Third Floor Back. Grosset & Dunlap, 1908.

There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last.

Jules Renard

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Topic

Things get worse Pessimism

Author

Jules Renard

Medium

Personal journal

Language

French

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Renard, Jules. Journal entry. 31 Oct. 1908.

Current Citation

Renard, Jules. The Journal of Jules Renard, edited and translated by Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget. Tin House Books, 2017.

Eternal Rest sounds comforting in the pulpit, too. Well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.

Mark Twain

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Topic

Eternal life

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Twain, Mark. "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven." Harper's Magazine, Dec. 1907 - Jan. 1908.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven." The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain, edited by Lawrence Berkove. Modern Library, 2004, ch. 1.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.

G.K. Chesterton

Orthodoxy

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Topic

Tradition

Author

G.K. Chesterton

Source

Orthodoxy

Genre

Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Chesterton, G.K. "Orthodoxy." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 1, Ignatius Press, 1986, ch. 4. Originally published by John Lane Co., 1908.

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows

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Topic

Vacation Time off Taking it easy

Author

Kenneth Grahame

Source

The Wind in the Willows

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, 1908, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Barnes & Noble, 2013, ch. 1.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

G.K. Chesterton

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Topic

Adventure Different perspectives

Author

G.K. Chesterton

Source

On Running After One's Hat All Things Considered

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Chesterton, G.K. "On Running After One's Hat." In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton. Ignatius Press, 2011. Originally published by Methuen & Company, 1908.

In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

Anatole France

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Topic

Wealth Democracy

Author

Anatole France

Source

Penguin Island

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Lament

Language

French

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

France, Anatole. L'Ile des Pingouins [Penguin Island]. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1908, bk. 6, ch. 2.

Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to.

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows

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Topic

Secrets

Author

Kenneth Grahame

Source

The Wind in the Willows

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, 1908, ch. 11.

Current Citation

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Barnes & Noble, 2013, ch. 11.

But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, and can recapture nothing but a dim sense of the beauty of it, the beauty! Till that, too, fades away in its turn, and the dreamer bitterly accepts the hard, cold waking and all its penalties.

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows

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Topic

Dreams Waking up

Author

Kenneth Grahame

Source

The Wind in the Willows

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, 1908.

Current Citation

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Barnes & Noble, 2013.

Look at that sea, girls-all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.

L.M. Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables

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Topic

Ocean and sea

Speaker

Anne Shirley

Author

L.M. Montgomery

Source

Anne of Green Gables

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Montgomery, L. M. Anne of Green Gables. L. C. Page & Co., 1908.

Current Citation

Montgomery, L. M. Anne of Green Gables. Puffin Books, 2014.

When the girl returned, some hours later, she carried a tray, with a cup of fragrant tea steaming on it; and a plate piled up with very hot buttered toast, cut thick, very brown on both sides, with the butter running through the holes in great golden drops, like honey from the honeycomb. The smell of that buttered toast simply talked to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cosy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over, and slippered feet were propped on the fender, of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries.

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows

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Topic

Toast Comfort Home

Author

Kenneth Grahame

Source

The Wind in the Willows

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, 1908, ch. 8.

Current Citation

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Barnes & Noble, 2013, ch. 8.

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows

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Topic

Spring Seasons

Author

Kenneth Grahame

Source

The Wind in the Willows

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, 1908, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Barnes & Noble, 2013, ch. 1.

Art is not a thing-it is a way.

Elbert Hubbard

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Topic

Nature of art Art

Author

Elbert Hubbard

Source

Thomas Arnold

Statement Type

Zen koan

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Hubbard, Elbert. "Thomas Arnold." Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers. The Roycrofters, 1908.

Here to-day, up and off to somewhere else to-morrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows

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Topic

Travel Adventure

Speaker

Toad

Author

Kenneth Grahame

Source

The Wind in the Willows

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, 1908, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Barnes & Noble, 2013, ch. 2.

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

G. K. Chesterton

Orthodoxy

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Topic

Christianity

Author

G. K. Chesterton

Source

Orthodoxy

Genre

Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Chesterton, G. K. Orthodoxy. John Lane Company, 1908, ch. 6.

Egypt's might is tumbled down
Down a-down the deeps of thought;
Greece is fallen and Troy town,
Glorious Rome hath lost her crown,
Venice' pride is nought.
But the dreams their children dreamed
Fleeting, unsubstantial, vain
Shadowy as the shadows seemed
Airy nothing, as they deemed,
These remain.

Mary Coleridge

Egypt's Might is Tumbled Down

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Decline of civilization Societal collapse Impermanence

Author

Mary Coleridge

Source

Egypt's Might is Tumbled Down

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Coleridge, Mary. "Egypt's Might is Tumbled Down." Poems. London: Elkin Mathews, 1908, I. 1.