The villagers are illiterate; they cannot be educated except by example!"
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Biondo era, e bello, e di gentile aspetto; Ma l'un de' cigli un colpo avea diviso. ( Dante. )
— from On Love by Stendhal

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— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Whether we can attribute the worst parts of a work to a forger and the best to a great writer,—as for example, in the case of some of Shakespeare's plays,—depends upon the probability that they have been interpolated, or have been the joint work of two writers; and this can only be established either by express evidence or by a comparison of other writings of the same class.
— from Laws by Plato

James Bankes, Esq ; Edward Busby, Esq ; Robert Bennett, Esq ; Charles Burley, Esq ; Mr Edward Bentham.
— from A Naval Expositor Shewing and Explaining the Words and Terms of Art Belonging to the Parts, Qualities and Proportions of Building, Rigging, Furnishing, & Fitting a Ship for Sea by Thomas Riley Blanckley

It is very presumptuous and hazardous to essay a definition of truth, yet since such a definition is a great desideratum, and since it will not be effected except by earnest trial, and since also, in such a matter, even failures that are consequent on devoted attempts are instructive to subsequent attempts, we venture our submission: A thought is true which while representing its applicate (that is whatever to which it is directly applied) also, in so far as its purport implies, represents in mind a thorough and respective parity and ratio, through which each thought-analyton and thought-syntheton (whether ground, mode, limit, number, part, relation, etc.) corresponds to its proper applicate-analyton or applicate-syntheton.
— from The Monist, Vol. 1, 1890-1891 by Various

CHAPTER I. With a great jangling of sleigh-bells and much shouting from his driver, who addressed the three horses by every epithet both endearing and abusive that his vocabulary could provide, Count Maximof drove into the yard of his nearest neighbour, the Boyar Demidof.
— from Moscow: A Story of the French Invasion of 1812 by Frederick Whishaw

He found himself totally unable to assist his ally, and this, added to the destruction of the Danish fleet and the blockade established everywhere by English ships, made him eagerly seek every opportunity of harming them.
— from Memoirs of the Empress Josephine, Vol. 2 of 2 by Madame de (Claire Elisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes) Rémusat

Not a bit!, deith, death, deleeberately, deliberately, dementit, demented; mad; crazy, denner, dinner, desertit, deserted, desperate, exceedingly; beyond measure, also irreclaimable; very bad didna, did not, differ, difference; dissent, also differ dingin', overcoming; wearying; vexing, also raining/snowing heavily dinna, do not, direckly, directly; immediately, dirt, worthless persons or things, term of contempt dishcloot, cloth for washing dishes, disna, does not, disoun, disown, distinckly, distinctly, div, do, divots, thin flat pieces of sod, dochter, daughter, doesna, does not, doin', doing, doin's, doings, doited, foolish; stupefied; crazy, dominie, minister; schoolmaster, slightly contemptuous dooble, double; duplicate, also double dealing; devious dooble-sole, double-sole, doobt, suspect; know; doubt, have an unpleasant conviction doobtin', suspecting; knowing, also doubting doobtless, doubtless, doobts, suspects; knows, also doubts dooce, gentle; sensible; sober; prudent, dooms, extremely; exceedingly; very, doon, down, doonricht, downright, door-cheek, door-post; threshold; doorway, door-stane, flagstone at the threshold of a door, dother, daughter, dottled, crazy; in dotage, douce, gentle; sensible; sober; prudent, dowie, sad; lonely; depressing; dismal, also ailing draigon, dragon; also boy's paper kite, reference to Revelation 12-13 draigons, dragons, also boys' paper kites dram, glass of whisky, drap, drop; small quantity of, drap i' the hoose, presence of someone unknown, drappit, dropped, drappy, little drop; a little (liquor), diminutive drauchts, plans; schemes; policies, also lineaments of the face drave, drove, drawin', drawing, dreadfu', dreadful, dreamin', dreaming, drear, dreary; dreariness; tedium, dreidfu', dreadful; dreadfully, drift, snow driven by the wind, driftin', drifting, snow driven by the wind drinkin', drinking, drivin', driving, droont, drowned, drucken, drunken; tipsy, drum-heid, drum head, drunken, drank; drunk, du, do, duin', doing, dumfoundered, perplexed; stunned; amazed, dune, done, dunna, do not, duv, do, duvna, do not, dwalls, dwells, d'ye, do you, dyke, wall of stone or turf, eaves-drapper, eavesdropper, Ebberdeen, Aberdeen, ee, eye, een, eyes, e'en, even; just; simply; equal, also eyes; evening efter, after; afterwards, efterhin, after; afterwards, efternune, afternoon, eident, industrious; diligent; steady, elbuck, elbow, eleckit, elected, chosen by God for salvation (Calvinism) ellwand, ell-wand; ruler; yardstick, 1 ell = 37 inches or 94 cm en', end, endit, ended, eneuch, enough, Englan', England, enjoyin', enjoying, eppiteet, appetite, er, ere; before, er', ere; before, Erse, Irish; Gaelic, etairnity, eternity, ewie, young ewe, exackly, exactly, excep', except, expairience, experience, expeckin', expecting, expecs, expects, eyther, either, fa', fall; befall, fac', fact; truth; reality, fac's, facts; truths; realities, factor, manager of a landed property, lets farms; collects rents fact'ry, factory, faddom, fathom, fa'en, fallen, failin', failing, faimilies, families, faimily, family, fain, eager; anxious; fond, also fondly; gladly fa'in', falling, fairmy, little farm, diminutive Faith!, Indeed!;
— from Robert Falconer by George MacDonald

This could only be effected either by encumbering the floor of the church with piers of inconvenient thickness or by a system of buttressing outside.
— from A History of Architecture in all Countries, Volume 1, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

Property therefore must have been established either by express agreement, as by division, or by tacit consent, as by occupancy.
— from The Rights of War and Peace by Hugo Grotius