# Bundled Quote provenance

Bundled Quote text is not licensed under the plugin code's MIT license. Each
entry below records the exact source used to verify its text and its separate
redistribution basis. `Stored Attribution` is the exact stored value, or
`(none)` when a Quote has no Attribution.

## Ralph Waldo Emerson — “Nothing great…”

- **Stored text:** “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
- **Stored Attribution:** Ralph Waldo Emerson
- **Work:** “Circles,” in *Essays, First Series*, first published in 1841
- **Verified edition:** Project Gutenberg eBook #2944, *Essays — First Series*, UTF-8 edition released December 1, 2001 and updated February 10, 2021
- **Source:** https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2944/pg2944-images.html#link2H_4_0010
- **Redistribution basis:** Project Gutenberg identifies the edition as public domain in the United States. Emerson died in 1882, so the underlying 1841 English text is also in the public domain in jurisdictions using a life-plus-70-years term. OmaQuote reproduces only the sentence and Attribution, not Project Gutenberg branding or compilation material.

## Jane Austen — “Think only of the past…”

- **Stored text:** “Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
- **Stored Attribution:** Jane Austen
- **Work:** *Pride and Prejudice*, Chapter LVIII, first published in 1813
- **Verified edition:** Project Gutenberg eBook #1342, transcribing the 1894 George Allen edition with a preface by George Saintsbury and illustrations by Hugh Thomson; UTF-8 edition released June 1, 1998 and updated February 10, 2026
- **Source:** https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1342/pg1342-images.html
- **Redistribution basis:** Project Gutenberg identifies the edition as public domain in the United States. Austen died in 1817, so her underlying English prose is also in the public domain in jurisdictions using a life-plus-70-years term. OmaQuote reproduces no Saintsbury preface, Thomson illustration, Project Gutenberg branding, or compilation material.

## Mary Shelley — “Nothing is so painful…”

- **Stored text:** “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
- **Stored Attribution:** Mary Shelley
- **Work:** *Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus*, first published in 1818
- **Verified edition:** Project Gutenberg eBook #84, *Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus*, UTF-8 edition released October 1, 1993 and updated February 10, 2026
- **Source:** https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/84/pg84-images.html
- **Redistribution basis:** Project Gutenberg identifies the edition as public domain in the United States. Shelley died in 1851, so the underlying English prose is also in the public domain in jurisdictions using a life-plus-70-years term. OmaQuote reproduces only the sentence and Attribution, not Project Gutenberg branding or compilation material.

## Charlotte Brontë — “I am no bird…”

- **Stored text:** “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.”
- **Stored Attribution:** Charlotte Brontë
- **Work:** *Jane Eyre: An Autobiography*, Chapter XXIII, first published in 1847
- **Verified edition:** Project Gutenberg eBook #1260, transcribing the illustrated 1897 Service & Paton edition; UTF-8 edition released March 1, 1998 and updated September 27, 2025
- **Source:** https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1260/pg1260-images.html
- **Redistribution basis:** Project Gutenberg identifies the edition as public domain in the United States. Brontë died in 1855, so her underlying English prose is also in the public domain in jurisdictions using a life-plus-70-years term. OmaQuote reproduces no F. H. Townsend illustration, Project Gutenberg branding, or compilation material.

## Louisa May Alcott — “I don’t know how long…”

- **Stored text:** “I don’t know how long it will last, but I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.”
- **Stored Attribution:** Louisa May Alcott
- **Work:** *Little Women*, Part Second, first published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869
- **Verified edition:** Project Gutenberg eBook #514, *Little Women*, UTF-8 edition released May 1, 1996 and updated November 4, 2022
- **Source:** https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/514/pg514-images.html
- **Redistribution basis:** Project Gutenberg identifies the edition as public domain in the United States. Alcott died in 1888, so the underlying English prose is also in the public domain in jurisdictions using a life-plus-70-years term. OmaQuote reproduces only the sentence and Attribution, not Project Gutenberg branding or compilation material.

## Lewis Carroll — “Everything’s got a moral…”

- **Stored text:** “Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.”
- **Stored Attribution:** Lewis Carroll
- **Work:** *Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland*, Chapter IX, first published in 1865
- **Verified edition:** Project Gutenberg eBook #11, Millennium Fulcrum Edition 3.0, UTF-8 edition released June 27, 2008 and updated June 26, 2025
- **Source:** https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11/pg11-images.html
- **Redistribution basis:** Project Gutenberg identifies the edition as public domain in the United States. Carroll died in 1898, so the underlying English prose is also in the public domain in jurisdictions using a life-plus-70-years term. OmaQuote reproduces only the sentence and Attribution, not Project Gutenberg branding or compilation material.

## Arthur Conan Doyle — “A capital mistake…”

- **Stored text:** “It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.”
- **Stored Attribution:** Arthur Conan Doyle
- **Work:** “A Scandal in Bohemia,” in *The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes*, first published in 1891 and collected in 1892
- **Verified edition:** Project Gutenberg eBook #1661, *The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes*, UTF-8 edition released March 1, 1999 and updated October 10, 2023
- **Source:** https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1661/pg1661-images.html
- **Redistribution basis:** Project Gutenberg identifies the edition as public domain in the United States. Conan Doyle died in 1930, so the underlying English prose is also in the public domain in jurisdictions using a life-plus-70-years term. OmaQuote preserves the source edition’s British spelling and reproduces no Project Gutenberg branding or compilation material.

## Mary Wollstonecraft — “It is justice…”

- **Stored text:** “It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!”
- **Stored Attribution:** Mary Wollstonecraft
- **Work:** *A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects*, first published in 1792
- **Verified edition:** Project Gutenberg eBook #3420, *A Vindication of the Rights of Woman*, UTF-8 edition released September 1, 2002 and updated January 8, 2021
- **Source:** https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3420/pg3420-images.html
- **Redistribution basis:** Project Gutenberg identifies the edition as public domain in the United States. Wollstonecraft died in 1797, so the underlying English prose is also in the public domain in jurisdictions using a life-plus-70-years term. OmaQuote reproduces only the sentence and Attribution, not the separately written biographical sketch, Project Gutenberg branding, or compilation material.

## Kahlil Gibran — “Work is love…”

- **Stored text:** “Work is love made visible.”
- **Stored Attribution:** Kahlil Gibran
- **Work:** “On Work,” in *The Prophet*, first published in 1923
- **Verified edition:** Project Gutenberg eBook #58585, transcribing the 1923 Alfred A. Knopf edition; UTF-8 edition released January 1, 2019 and updated February 10, 2026
- **Source:** https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/58585/pg58585-images.html
- **Redistribution basis:** Project Gutenberg identifies the 1923 edition as public domain in the United States. Gibran died in 1931, so his underlying English text is also in the public domain in jurisdictions using a life-plus-70-years term. OmaQuote reproduces no drawings, Project Gutenberg branding, or compilation material.

## Frederick Douglass — “A slave was made a man…”

- **Stored text:** “You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.”
- **Stored Attribution:** Frederick Douglass
- **Work:** *Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave*, Chapter X, first published in 1845
- **Verified edition:** Project Gutenberg eBook #23, transcribing the 1845 Boston Anti-Slavery Office edition; UTF-8 edition released January 12, 2006 and updated July 18, 2026
- **Source:** https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/23/pg23-images.html
- **Redistribution basis:** Project Gutenberg identifies the edition as public domain in the United States. Douglass died in 1895, so his underlying English prose is also in the public domain in jurisdictions using a life-plus-70-years term. OmaQuote reproduces only the sentence and Attribution, not Project Gutenberg branding or compilation material.

## Jane Addams — “Action is indeed…”

- **Stored text:** “For action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics.”
- **Stored Attribution:** Jane Addams
- **Work:** *Democracy and Social Ethics*, first published in 1902
- **Verified edition:** Project Gutenberg eBook #15487, transcribing the 1902 Macmillan edition; UTF-8 edition released March 28, 2005 and updated December 14, 2020
- **Source:** https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/15487/pg15487-images.html
- **Redistribution basis:** Project Gutenberg identifies the edition as public domain in the United States. Addams died in 1935, so her underlying English prose is also in the public domain in jurisdictions using a life-plus-70-years term. OmaQuote reproduces only the sentence and Attribution, not Project Gutenberg branding or compilation material.

## Booker T. Washington — “Success is to be measured…”

- **Stored text:** “I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
- **Stored Attribution:** Booker T. Washington
- **Work:** *Up from Slavery: An Autobiography*, first published in 1901
- **Verified edition:** Project Gutenberg eBook #2376, *Up from Slavery: An Autobiography*, UTF-8 edition released October 1, 2000 and updated September 9, 2025
- **Source:** https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2376/pg2376-images.html
- **Redistribution basis:** Project Gutenberg identifies the edition as public domain in the United States. Washington died in 1915, so his underlying English prose is also in the public domain in jurisdictions using a life-plus-70-years term. OmaQuote reproduces only the sentence and Attribution, not Project Gutenberg branding or compilation material.

## Robert Louis Stevenson — “To travel hopefully…”

- **Stored text:** “Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.”
- **Stored Attribution:** Robert Louis Stevenson
- **Work:** “El Dorado,” in *Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers*, first collected in 1881
- **Verified edition:** Project Gutenberg eBook #386, transcribing the 1897 Chatto & Windus edition; UTF-8 edition released January 1, 1996 and updated November 6, 2012
- **Source:** https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/386/pg386-images.html
- **Redistribution basis:** Project Gutenberg identifies the edition as public domain in the United States. Stevenson died in 1894, so his underlying English prose is also in the public domain in jurisdictions using a life-plus-70-years term. OmaQuote preserves the source edition’s spelling and reproduces no Project Gutenberg branding or compilation material.

## Charles Dickens — “Take everything on evidence…”

- **Stored text:** “Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.”
- **Stored Attribution:** Charles Dickens
- **Work:** *Great Expectations*, first published in 1861
- **Verified edition:** Project Gutenberg eBook #1400, transcribing the 1867 edition; UTF-8 edition released July 1, 1998 and updated December 17, 2024
- **Source:** https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1400/pg1400-images.html
- **Redistribution basis:** Project Gutenberg identifies the edition as public domain in the United States. Dickens died in 1870, so the underlying English prose is also in the public domain in jurisdictions using a life-plus-70-years term. OmaQuote reproduces only the two sentences and Attribution, not Project Gutenberg branding or compilation material.

## Henry David Thoreau — “Quiet desperation…”

- **Stored text:** “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
- **Stored Attribution:** Henry David Thoreau
- **Work:** “Economy,” in *Walden; or, Life in the Woods*, first published in 1854
- **Verified edition:** Project Gutenberg eBook #205, *Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience*, UTF-8 edition released January 1, 1995 and updated February 20, 2026
- **Source:** https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/205/pg205-images.html
- **Redistribution basis:** Project Gutenberg identifies the edition as public domain in the United States. Thoreau died in 1862, so the underlying English prose is also in the public domain in jurisdictions using a life-plus-70-years term. OmaQuote reproduces only the sentence and Attribution, not Project Gutenberg branding or compilation material.