But two can also efficiently serve eight; or with unaccompanied dishes an expert servant can manage eight alone, and with one assistant, he can perfectly manage twelve.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Some people talk nonsense or cheat, and even so enjoy life, while I consciously do good, and feel nothing but uneasiness or complete indifference.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

" He did come back, and even brought a friend, and the friend went away and brought a relative, and among them they made a hearty meal over which they twittered and chattered and exclaimed, stopping every now and then to put their heads on one side and examine Lottie and Sara.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

He could not design a picture, but he could copy it, and he assured me that he could copy an engraving so exactly that none could tell the copy from the original.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

But it is not necessary that states which choose to have no intercourse with others should remain inactive; for the several members thereof may have mutual intercourse with each other; for there are many opportunities for this among the different citizens; the same thing is true of every individual: for, was it otherwise, neither could the Deity nor the universe be perfect; to neither of whom can anything external separately exist.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

The long habit of sole dominion over every object round him, his almost unbroken solitude, his never encountering humanity except on terms of misanthropic independence, or mercantile craftiness, and even such encounters being comparatively but rare; all this must have gradually nourished in him a vast idea of his own importance, together with a pure animal sort of scorn for all the rest of the universe.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

Alto, moreno, ancho de pecho, rígido como un sable, su espesa cabellera negra caía, aún en su edad madura, en enérgicas guedejas sobre su frente atezada, según se dejaba ver en un retrato casi juvenil, que de él se conservaba en la sala del gobierno
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

[46] de José Mármol, [47] es un libro esencialmente porteño, y americano por extensión; para juzgarlo es preciso un criterio nuestro, argentino, pues siempre valdrá mucho más para los conocedores del teatro de los hechos, que para los que, ignorando los caracteres, las costumbres y la topografía del cuadro, aplican en su examen elementos generales de crítica, y subordinan el conjunto, como obra de arte, a los preceptos de escuela.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Let him reckon how many of the ten thousand or so names here recorded he has ever heard of before, let him make this myriad the denominator of a fraction to which the dozen perennial fames shall be the numerator, and he will find that his dividend of a chance at escaping speedy extinction is not worth making himself unhappy about.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

be Thou a witness of our troubles, See the lorn brood that calls an eagle sire, Eagle that perished in the coils and folds 240 Of a fell viper.
— from Æschylos Tragedies and Fragments by Aeschylus

You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, send e-mail to: edupage@educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName **
— from Project Gutenberg Newsletters 1999 Thirteen Letters: December 1998 to December 1999 by Michael Hart

Exchange rates: Norwegian kroner (NOK) per US dollar - 5.6361 (2008), 5.86 (2007), 6.418 (2006), 6.445 (2005), 6.7327 (2004) Communications ::Norway Telephones - main lines in use: 1.928 million (2008) country comparison to the world: 57 Telephones - mobile cellular: 5.287 million (2008) country comparison to the world: 85 Telephone system: general assessment: modern in all respects; one of the most advanced telecommunications networks in Europe domestic: Norway has a domestic satellite system; moreover, the prevalence of rural areas encourages the wide use of cellular-mobile systems instead of fixed-wire systems international: country code - 47; 2 buried coaxial cable systems; submarine cables provide links to other Nordic countries and Europe; satellite earth stations - NA Eutelsat, NA Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean), and 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions); note - Norway shares the Inmarsat earth station with the other Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden) (1999) Radio broadcast stations: AM 5, FM 160, shortwave 1 (2008)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

To these Christmas was added in the fourth century and Epiphany somewhat earlier.
— from The Divine Office A Study of the Roman Breviary by Edward J. Quigley

For I hold very strongly by two convictions--The first is, that neither the discipline nor the subject-matter of classical education is of such direct value to the student of physical science as to justify the expenditure of valuable time upon either; and the second is, that for the purpose of attaining real culture, an exclusively scientific education is at least as effectual as an exclusively literary education.
— from Science & Education: Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

So that from this Apology alone, though addressed to the heathen, we learn that Justin cordially accepted every supernatural element in Christianity.
— from The Lost Gospel and Its Contents Or, The Author of "Supernatural Religion" Refuted by Himself by M. F. (Michael Ferrebee) Sadler

Officers of the Russo-Afghan Boundary Commission passed through modern Balkh in 1884, but no such bricks were found during the very cursory and entirely superficial examination which was all that could be made of the place; square bricks, without inscription, of the size and quality of those which may any day be dug out of the Birs Nimrud at Babylon were certainly found, and point to a similarity of construction in a part of the ancient walls, which is surely not accidental.
— from The Gates of India: Being an Historical Narrative by Holdich, Thomas Hungerford, Sir

But the two little cubs at either side escaped with only a hurt or two, and, after yelling fearfully, one of them took his tail between his legs and ran away.
— from Zuñi Folk Tales by Frank Hamilton Cushing