#nineteenth

Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates. ↗

— John Pilger

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Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen. ↗

— Ellen Key

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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts. ↗

— Lukas Foss

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The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations. ↗

— Lech Walesa

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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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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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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains. ↗

— James A. Michener

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