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Authors

67 writers whose work is in the public domain. Every quote is checked against a published text of the book it comes from.

Abraham Lincoln1809–18653
Adam Smith1723–17901
Alexander Pope1688–17445
Alexandre Dumas1802–18701
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–18922
Ambrose Bierce1842–c. 1914665
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–19303
Benjamin Franklin1706–179018
The Bible (King James Version)The English translation of the Bible published in 161118
Charles Darwin1809–18821
Charles Dickens1812–18707
Charlotte Brontë1816–18552
Confucius551 BC–479 BC11
Dante Alighieric. 1265–13211
The DhammapadaA collection of Buddhist verses traditionally held to be sayings of the Buddha2
Emily Brontë1818–18481
Emily Dickinson1830–18865
Epictetusc. 50–c. 1354
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–19401
Francis Bacon1561–162612
François de La Rochefoucauld1613–1680457
Frederick Douglass1818–18951
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900116
G. K. Chesterton1874–19366
George Bernard Shaw1856–19502
George Eliot1819–18801
Henry David Thoreau1817–186218
Herman Melville1819–18912
J. M. Barrie1860–19372
Jane Austen1775–18179
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832449
John Donne1572–16312
John Keats1795–18212
John Milton1608–16742
John Stuart Mill1806–18732
Joseph Conrad1857–19242
Kahlil Gibran1883–19316
L. M. Montgomery1874–19421
Laozi (Lao Tzu)Chinese sage traditionally credited with the Tao Te Ching (6th–4th century BC)5
Leo Tolstoy1828–19101
Lewis Carroll1832–18986
Lord Byron1788–18241
Lord Chesterfield1694–177330
Marcus Aurelius121–1809
Mark Twain1835–191092
Mary Wollstonecraft1759–17971
Michel de Montaigne1533–15922
Niccolò Machiavelli1469–15274
Omar Khayyám1048–11312
Oscar Wilde1854–190055
Platoc. 428 BC–c. 348 BC2
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–188215
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–18943
Rudyard Kipling1865–19362
Samuel Butler1835–19023
Samuel Johnson1709–17846
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–18341
Senecac. 4 BC–AD 652
Sun TzuChinese general and strategist traditionally credited with The Art of War (around the 5th century BC)6
Thomas Hobbes1588–16791
Thomas Jefferson1743–18261
Thomas Paine1737–18093
Victor Hugo1802–18851
Walt Whitman1819–18923
William Blake1757–182767
William Shakespeare1564–161685
William Wordsworth1770–18503