Lucy only wishes the negroes would keep it all to polish themselves with, and not send any home.
— from Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Platonic dialogue was as it were the boat in which the shipwrecked ancient poetry saved herself together with all her children: crowded into a narrow space and timidly obsequious to the one steersman, Socrates, they now launched into a new world, which never tired of looking at the fantastic spectacle of this procession.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

They were very serious and never smiled, and even in a musical comedy they played without the faintest trace of gaiety, with a businesslike air, as though they were engaged in bookkeeping.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

'Thereabout, madam,' said Dorothee, 'and well remembered, but all the time between then and now seems as nothing.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Now Moral Choice is plainly voluntary, but the two are not co-extensive, voluntary being the more comprehensive term; for first, children and all other animals share in voluntary action but not in Moral Choice; and next, sudden actions we call voluntary but do not ascribe them to Moral Choice.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

In all sternness let it be answered thus:— just the good man of the other morality, just the aristocrat, the powerful one, the one who rules, but who is distorted by the venomous eye of resentfulness, into a new colour, a new signification, a new appearance.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

when since a no since when since, a no since, a no since when since, a no since, a no, a no since a no since, a no since, a no since.
— from Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Gertrude Stein

And that prince who, relying entirely on their promises, has neglected other precautions, is ruined; because friendships that are obtained by payments, and not by greatness or nobility of mind, may indeed be earned, but they are not secured, and in time of need cannot be relied upon; and men have less scruple in offending one who is beloved than one who is feared, for love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

Now I, Critias and Hermocrates, am conscious that I myself should never be able to celebrate the city and her citizens in a befitting manner, and I am not surprised at my own incapacity; to me the wonder is rather that the poets present as well as past are no better—not that I mean to depreciate them; but every one can see that they are a tribe of imitators, and will imitate best and most easily the life in which they have been brought up; while that which is beyond the range of a man's education he finds hard to carry out in action, and still harder adequately to represent in language.
— from Timaeus by Plato

He considered the offer a moment, and this was his answer: "You are not Satan and I am not Jesus, but we are upon the mountain, and you have tempted me powerfully.
— from From Canal Boy to President; Or, the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

"You are not sorry, are you?"
— from The Lure of the Mask by Harold MacGrath

Boots are not shied at him when he says his prayers; he is not tossed in a blanket; it is merely that he is utterly lonely, is in constant fear of making mistakes, is never certain of what may happen next, and so makes for himself troubles that do not exist.
— from The Loom of Youth by Alec (Alexander Raban) Waugh

"You say you have not had an hour's training, and never saw a play.
— from My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin

It was high time that a new singer— ANOTHER [ Same business. ]
— from Chantecler: Play in Four Acts by Edmond Rostand

The windows are not splayed, and those which now look into the aisles are unglazed, and their flanking lancets are of unequal width.
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric by Cecil Walter Charles Hallett

Solomon Islander(s) adjective: Solomon Islander Somalia noun: Somali(s) adjective: Somali South Africa noun: South African(s) adjective: South African Spain noun: Spaniard(s) adjective:
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

These and the following details, [pg 063] taken from well-known authentic native sources, are attractively rendered in the “Newe Welt und Amerikanische Historien” (Johann Ludwig Gottfriedt.
— from The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems by Zelia Nuttall

Miss Hamilton is never as lively as Miss Elizabeth; she is always quiet and thoughtful; some girls are like that, they are not sparkling and frothy.'
— from Uncle Max by Rosa Nouchette Carey