Though all that has arrived, by report, of our knowledge of times past should be true, and known by some one person, it would be less than nothing in comparison of what is unknown.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne
Real GDP growth averaged about 6% per year under ABDULLAH, but regions outside of Kuala Lumpur and the manufacturing hub Penang did not fare as well.
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
We should find that the difference between the two is not one of degree at all, but rather one of kind, and that mere breadth of fun has nothing to do with the question.
— from Theodore Watts-Dunton: Poet, Novelist, Critic by James Douglas
Oh! Victorin is no longer the child of the camps that we, old soldiers with grey moustaches, knew as a baby, rode on our knees, and, down to only recently, looked upon with pride and friendship!"
— from The Casque's Lark; or, Victoria, the Mother of the Camps by Eugène Sue
Real GDP growth has averaged about 6% per year under ABDULLAH, but regions outside of Kuala Lumpur and the manufacturing hub Penang have not fared as well.
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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