The deviations between races and men are not yet so great as is the ignorance of self, the blindness to the native ideal, which prevails in most of them.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

In Germany, the "Consumers' Association" plan, especially among the military and civil service employees, reaches such a point that numerous business houses have been ruined, and many are not far from the same fate.
— from Woman under socialism by August Bebel

For those who read this preface with any previous knowledge of Mr. Browning's life and character, there will be an obvious inference to his own youthfulness in the exaggerated estimate thus implied of his imaginative sins; for the tendency of "Pauline" is both religious and moral; and no man has been more innocent than its author, from boyhood up, of tampering with any belief in the black art.
— from A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Orr, Sutherland, Mrs.

There are many young men engaged in perfectly worthy employment who prefer that their social set should not know of the exact nature of their work for fear it would be regarded as menial and not sufficiently ``swell.''
— from Increasing Human Efficiency in Business A Contribution to the Psychology of Business by Walter Dill Scott

We had originally started, it will be remembered, at midnight, and now again as we approached the new capital of the world the curtain of night was just beginning to be drawn over it.
— from Edison's Conquest of Mars by Garrett Putman Serviss

This delicacy of observation accords admirably with the almost incredible subtlety of his combinations of intrigue; and the elegance of his language and versification complete the ingenious harmony of these apparently irregular dramas, which though not sufficiently perfect to be regarded as models, are nevertheless true to the rules which the author prescribed to himself.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

[51] could bear the loneliness.—'Why, God be betune us and harm!' they often said, 'Sure the crathur might be robbed and murdhered any night of the year and no wan the wiser.'
— from An Isle in the Water by Katharine Tynan

Sparta had no seamen except constrained Helots or paid foreigners; [101] while the commerce of Peiræus had both required and maintained a numerous population of this character.
— from History of Greece, Volume 10 (of 12) by George Grote

People will not be robbed any more at night?
— from The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes