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#nineteenth

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I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.


Thomas B. Macaulay


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The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.


Alfred Marshall


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The nineteenth century was the Age of Romanticism; for the first time in history, man stopped thinking of himself as an animal or a slave, and saw himself as a potential god. All of the cries of revolt against 'God' - De Sade, Byron's "Manfred", Schiller's "Robbers", Goethe's "Faust", Hoffmann's mad geniuses - are expressions of this new spirit. Is this why the 'spirits' decided to make a planned and consistent effort at 'communication'? It was the right moment. Man was beginning to understand himself.


Colin Wilson


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But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.


Georg Brandes


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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.


Oscar Wilde


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At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.


Adolf Loos


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Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.


John McGahern


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If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.


Marshall McLuhan


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When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.


Satyajit Ray


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In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.


Erich Fromm


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