Throughout the whole animal kingdom every young creature requires almost continual exercise, and the infancy of children, conformable to this intimation, should be passed in harmless gambols, that exercise the feet and hands, without requiring very minute direction from the head, or the constant attention of a nurse.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

Do you think Nancy and me has got nothing else to do with our precious time but to spend it in scouting arter, and kidnapping, every young boy as gets grabbed through you?
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

In the great slaughter-houses of Chicago; in those huge hideous box-shaped buildings, five or six storeys high, about ten millions of animals are killed every year.
— from The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition by A. W. Duncan

I've watched every move you've made and known everything you planned."
— from Empire by Clifford D. Simak

You bravely and kindly exerted yourself to save the mother's life; now you must train her child carefully, for unless you do so its natural instinct will prove mischievous instead of useful to us."
— from The Swiss Family Robinson; or, Adventures on a Desert Island by Johann David Wyss

Many are killed every year, both for their flesh and skins.
— from Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon by John Muir

Oh! dresses and dresses, frocks and pinafores and kilts, everything you can imagine, and all in the brightest colours,—pink and blue, yellow and green,—a perfect flower-garden.
— from Hildegarde's Harvest by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Why have you never told me what was going to happen—you who are high in power and know everything?" "Your questions flock upon me like doves to a maiden who feeds them from her hand," said Zoroaster, with a smile, "and I know not which shall be fed first.
— from Marzio's Crucifix, and Zoroaster by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford