PoemTake up the White Man's burden — Send forth the best ye breed — Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need.Rudyard KiplingThe White Man's Burden · 1899★ 7.1
LetterWhen a man spends the least possible number of movements over one definite action, that is grace.Anton Chekhov1899★ 6.2
Psychological literatureThe interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.Sigmund FreudThe Interpretation of Dreams · 1899★ 5.5
I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself. Your own reality—for yourself, not for others—what no other man can ever know.Joseph ConradHeart of Darkness · 1899★ 5.4
Sociology · Economic literatureIn order to gain and to hold the esteem of men it is not sufficient merely to possess wealth or power. The wealth or power must be put in evidence, for esteem is awarded only on evidence.Thorstein VeblenThe Theory of the Leisure Class · 1899★ 5.3
NovelFor the first time in her life she stood naked in the open air, at the mercy of the sun, the breeze that beat upon her, and the waves that invited her.Kate ChopinThe Awakening · 1899★ 5.2
NovelThe voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.Kate Chopin1899★ 5.2
A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation."Stephen CraneA Man Said to the Universe · 1899★ 5.2
NovelThe conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.Joseph ConradHeart of Darkness · 1899★ 3.8
NovellaNo fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze.Joseph ConradHeart of Darkness · 1899★ 3.8
Sociology · Economic literatureConspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.Thorstein Veblen1899★ 3.7
PoemI have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.W.B. Yeats1899★ 3.7
SpeechFar better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.Theodore Roosevelt1899★ 3.7
NovelShe was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.Kate ChopinThe Awakening · 1899★ 3.6
NovelThe years that are gone seem like dreams—if one might go on sleeping and dreaming—but to wake up and find—oh! well! Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.Kate ChopinThe Awakening · 1899★ 3.5
PoemBowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world.Edwin Markham1899★ 3.5
LectureThe more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplanted in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote.Albert A. Michelson1899★ 2.6
PoemThe people people choose for friends Your common sense appall, But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.Charlotte Perkins Gilman1899★ 1.9
Sociology · Economic literatureThe dog... Commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery, and as he is also an item of expense, and commonly serves no industrial purpose, he holds a well-assured place in men's regard as a thing of good repute.Thorstein Veblen1899★ 1.9
NovelThe Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.H.G. Wells1899★ 1.9
SpeechI wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.Theodore Roosevelt1899★ 1.3
NovelMrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her.Kate ChopinThe Awakening · 1899★ 1.0
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