Essay · MagazineSunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.Louis Brandeis1913★ 6.9
NovelThe history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.Willa CatherO Pioneers! · 1913★ 5.5
Novel · Modernist literatureOnce I had recognized the taste of the crumb of madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime flowers which my aunt used to give me... Immediately the old gray house upon the street, where her room was, rose up like the scenery of a theater.Marcel ProustIn Search of Lost Time · 1913★ 5.3
LetterThe various admirable movements in which I have been engaged have always developed among their members a large lunatic fringe.Theodore Roosevelt1913★ 3.7
NovelWe come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it-for a little while.Willa CatherO Pioneers! · 1913★ 3.7
NovelI like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.Willa CatherO Pioneers! · 1913★ 3.7
NovelThere are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years.Willa CatherO Pioneers! · 1913★ 3.6
SpeechThe only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.1913★ 3.5
NewspaperI myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.Rebecca West1913★ 3.5
PlayWomen upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.George Bernard ShawPygmalion · 1913★ 2.7
Speech · Political speechThere can be no equality or opportunity, the first essential of justice in the body politic, if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives, their very vitality, from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they can not alter, control, or singly cope with.Woodrow Wilson1913★ 1.9
Speech · Political speechWe have been proud of our industrial achievements, but we have not hitherto stopped thoughtfully enough to count the human cost, the cost of lives snuffed out, of energies overtaxed and broken, the fearful physical and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through.Woodrow WilsonFirst Inaugural Address of Woodrow Wilson · 1913★ 1.9
Speech · Political speechThere has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to succeed and be great. Our thought has been "Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself," while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves.Woodrow WilsonFirst Inaugural Address of Woodrow Wilson · 1913★ 1.9
Speech · Political speechWe have squandered a great part of what we might have used, and have not stopped to conserve the exceeding bounty of nature, without which our genius for enterprise would have been worthless and impotent.Woodrow WilsonFirst Inaugural Address of Woodrow Wilson · 1913★ 1.9
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