But let us not talk of that matter.
— from Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act by Oscar Wilde

You teach your best friends to be cruel perforce; hardening wife and children by long use neither to regard nor to lament your sufferings.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

—They are rid of the Christian God and therefore think it all the more incumbent upon them to hold tight to Christian morality: this is an English way of reasoning; but let us not take it ill in moral females à la Eliot.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

VALENTIN (bitterly) : Let us not touch on old wounds not yet healed.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But let us not think of ourselves alone!
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

One would rather, however, dwell on the brighter hues of the picture than on its shadows and blemishes; let us not, then, seek to “draw his frailties from their dread abode.”
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Madam de Warens always projecting, always busy, left us no time for idleness, though, indeed, we had each sufficient employment on our own account.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nature, wiser than they, has exceptions to her rules, let us not defy them for the future, but let us not trouble ourselves if we have defied them in the past.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

But let us now try the virtue of your mathematical balance, and as you have put into one scale the burthens of friendship, let me put its comforts into the other.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 2 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

an' I couldn't rightly make things go; an' she says she won't be lavin' us now that she can turn a penny wid her posies an' help along."
— from Daisy's Work: The Third Commandment by Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) Mathews

But let us notice that this addition has no more importance than a prescribed formula in a notarial act; for instance, the presence of a second notary prescribed by the law, but always [125] dispensed with in practice.
— from The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet

A more familiar thought, but let us not therefore overlook its preciousness.
— from The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Books of the Bible, Volume 15 (of 32) The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Volume I by Alfred Tucker

II, Ess. xxxix, p. 444.] "From the pleasing duty of describing such a 'character' (meaning the personal character of Mr. BLOOMFIELD) let us now turn our attention to the species of composition of which his Poem is so perfect a specimen.
— from The Farmer's Boy: A Rural Poem by Robert Bloomfield

Let us devote ourselves to smaller fields if we must, but let us not tolerate ignorance among those who bear the burden of passing on, with its flame ever more consuming, the torch of knowledge.
— from College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper

But let us now turn to the opening of the new Administration.
— from Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third, Volume 1 (of 4) by Horace Walpole

But let us not talk of sorrow; the day is too happy.
— from Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Eugène Sue