“I will always remember it, dear Heart!
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

In addition there is the law of this 426 filling up (that the ground of the repulsion of the parts must decrease in the same proportion as the extension of the body increases, and as the space, which it fills with the same parts by means of this force, is augmented).—On the contrary, if I think a supersensible Being as the first mover , and thus by the category of causality as regards its determination of the world (motion of matter), I must not think it as existing in any place in space nor as extended; I must not even think it as existing in time or simultaneously with other beings.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

In brief, the king openly assented to the preaching of the Gospel by Paulinus, and renouncing idolatry, declared that he received the faith of Christ: and when he inquired of the aforesaid high priest of his religion, who should first desecrate the altars and temples of their idols, with the precincts that were about them, he answered, “I; for who can more fittingly than myself destroy those things which I worshipped in my folly, for an example to all others, through the wisdom which has been given me by the true God?”
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

It's new to me, but you are right, I dare say.”
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Grinding and Packaging It is a curious fact that green coffee improves upon aging, whereas after roasting it deteriorates with time.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

For praters are jeered at for their commonplaces, and hated when they bring bad news, and run into danger when they reveal secrets.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

8 A Vine from Aegypt thou hast brought, Thy free love made it thine, And drov'st out Nations proud and haut To plant this lovely Vine. 9 Thou did'st prepare for it a place And root it deep and fast That it began to grow apace, And fill'd the land at last.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Why should not my servant be like my own kindred, so that I may take him into my family and rejoice in doing so?
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He was very proud, dress'd like a gentleman, liv'd expensively, took much diversion and pleasure abroad, ran in debt, and neglected his business; upon which, all business left him; and, finding nothing to do, he followed Keimer to Barbadoes, taking the printing-house with him.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

I fancied I saw why—Baxter, or Netherfield, had already presented himself to her as a personage of a dark and romantic, if deeply-wicked and even blood-stained sort.
— from Ravensdene Court by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

The warrior's shield started downward and he was unable to stop it and reverse its direction before the commander's sword pierced his throat.
— from Despoilers of the Golden Empire by Randall Garrett

Already Fouché's police saw the white pigeon, the symbol of Bonaparte's candour and revolutionary innocence, descend from Heaven with the sacred phial.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 2 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 2 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

,' said Mr Podsnap, with a gracious consciousness of being always right, 'is Difficult.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

I have heard that right there in Georgia there was one white planter—I think it was Brantley---who put one of his slaves that had been unruly in a packing screw and ran it down on him till he mashed him to death.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 by United States. Work Projects Administration

He believes that a fact is more than a fact, that it is the expression or manifestation of something other or more than itself; or again, that it is a piece of evidence, a document , which it is not enough to have put on record, but in which we must also seek, through contrasts and resemblances, its deep ulterior meaning.
— from Honoré de Balzac by Honoré de Balzac

"I don't remember it; at any rate, I didn't mean it in the sense you mean."
— from Tinman by Tom Gallon

But we are rather in doubt as to whether a communication from the United States addressed to "John Smith, Esq., or any intelligent Smith, London, England," or possibly a proposal from some unknown admirer for "Miss Annie W—, London, address not known," ever reached their rightful owners. FIG.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 01, No. 05, May 1891 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

"At any rate I don't shilly-shally about things like old Dogvane does; but I speak out my mind like every honest man should; and look you, my little Pepper, I'm not going to be monkey-led by any man."
— from The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Richard Clynton