Political literatureThe right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged... On account of race, color, or previous condition or servitude.1870★ 5.5
SpeechWhen the white men came we gave them lands, and did not wish to hurt them. But the white man drove us back and took our lands. Then the Great Father made us many promises, but they are not kept. He promised to give us large presents, and when they came to us they were small; they seemed to be lost on the way.Red Cloud1870★ 5.2
NovelThrough his passion nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.Leopold von Sacher-MasochVenus in Furs · 1870★ 5.1
LetterI cannot look at the universe as the result of blind chance, yet I can see no evidence of beneficent design, or indeed of design of any kind, in the details.Charles Darwin1870★ 2.0
Academic journal · Scientific literatureMathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.Benjamin Peirce1870★ 1.9
LetterThe Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Women's Rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.Queen Victoria1870★ 1.9
SpeechThe great tragedy of Science-the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.T.H. Huxley1870★ 1.9
SpeechThere is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.T.H. Huxley1870★ 1.9
SpeechPatience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.T.H. Huxley1870★ 1.9
Philosophical literatureTo own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch their renewal of life-this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.Charles Dudley Warner1870★ 1.8
Courtroom speech · SpeechThe one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.... When all other friends desert, he remains.George Graham VestEulogy of the Dog · 1870★ 1.8
NovelAction may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action.Benjamin DisraeliLothair · 1870★ 1.2
NovelWe may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.Jules VerneTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea · 1870★ 1.2
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