"Let's agree once for all: let's speak about actors, actresses, writers, but let us leave art out of it.
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
But let us look further before we decide.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain
If however it seems that no attempt at cure has been left untried, let us say to the talkative person, "Be silent, boy; silence has great advantages;" two of the first and foremost of which are hearing and being heard, neither of which can happen to talkative people, for however they desire either so unhappy are they that they must desist from it.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch
Kalisun nátù arun way bintáhà, Let us level it off carefully
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
No, brother; let us leave that alone.
— from The Imaginary Invalid by Molière
You know, Varvara Petrovna, his letters are endless and incessant, and, you know, for the last two or three months there has been letter upon letter, till, I must own, at last
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The storm engulfed itself in the little valley of Yport, whistling and moaning, tearing the shingles from the roofs, smashing the shutters, knocking down the chimneys, rushing through the narrow streets in such gusts that one could walk only by holding on to the walls, and children would have been lifted up like leaves and carried over the houses into the fields.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
But let us look farther:— "Restrictions of these rights and this duty commence at the time when covenants, either implied or expressed, are agreed upon.
— from What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
I am sorry that these footnotes have grown so big; let us leave them and return to the letter.
— from Happy Days by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
The rows of seats, which were simply some boards laid upon large blocks of wood, were also as he had expected to see them.
— from The Poorhouse Waif and His Divine Teacher: A True Story by Isabel C. (Isabel Coston) Byrum
But let us look well and see if we, as a people, do not bear some share of the responsibility for the prevalence of this curse.
— from Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem. A Novel by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs
But let us look out and see."
— from Henry of Guise; or, The States of Blois (Vol. 2 of 3) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
But let us look a little also to the various consequences of his life of sin.
— from Stories for the Young; Or, Cheap Repository Tracts Entertaining, Moral, and Religious. Vol. VI. by Hannah More
Let us support any reasonable plan whether in the form of a League of Nations or in any other shape which bids fair to lessen the probable number of future wars and to limit their scope, but let us laugh at all or any assertions that any such plan will guaranty Peace and Safety to the foolish, weak, or timid characters who have not the will and the power to prepare for their own defense.
— from My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
But let us look at the matter in another way:—do we not acknowledge that the things of which we were speaking, the infliction of death, and exile, and the deprivation of property are sometimes a good and sometimes not a good?
— from Gorgias by Plato
None the worse for that, doubtless, were those staunch, if stern, followers of conscience; but one may be permitted to wish that they had been less unbending, less gloomy,--less Puritanical, in short,--in their ideas concerning that which they termed Christianity.
— from Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) by John Ruse Larus
On whom the responsibility must rest for their not being provided is another matter and must be left until later.
— from The Loss of the S. S. Titanic: Its Story and Its Lessons by Lawrence Beesley
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