It proves that the deeper truth in her nature, which can survive such a career of cruel cowardliness, is not greed, but reverence for unselfish ideals.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

Intelligence, wit, judgement, and the other talents of the mind, however they may be named, or courage, resolution, perseverance, as qualities of temperament, are undoubtedly good and desirable in many respects; but these gifts of nature may also become extremely bad and mischievous if the will which is to make use of them, and which, therefore, constitutes what is called character, is not good.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

And for many years, English merchants supplied the coffees consumed in northern Germany; while Italy supplied southern Germany.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The latter organisms coagulate milk at 98° F., but not at room temperature, and although a minute description of cultural characteristics is not given it would seem to be related to Bacillus or Lactobacillus caucasicus .
— from The Bacillus of Long Life A Manual of the Preparation and Souring of Milk for Dietary Purposes, Together with an Historical Account of the Use of Fermented Milks, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, and Their Wonderful Effect in the Prolonging of Human Existence by Loudon M. Douglas

The English system of numbering Card Clothing is now generally used by Cotton Mills.
— from Illustrated Catalogue of Cotton Machinery by Howard & Bullough American Machine Company

One by one the companies are marching up, and taking place in line; the city companies in natty gray fatigue, the country companies often in their Sunday clothes.
— from The Crisis — Volume 05 by Winston Churchill

The inverted cylinder construction is not generally followed because even with pressure feed, dry crank-case type lubricating system there is considerable danger of over-lubrication and of oil collecting and carbonizing in the combustion chamber and gumming up the valve action much quicker than would be the case if the engine was operated in the conventional upright position.
— from Aviation Engines: Design—Construction—Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pagé

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— from A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board the Ship Globe, of Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824 And the journal of a residence of two years on the Mulgrave Islands; with observations on the manners and customs of the inhabitants by Cyrus M. Hussey

Covered with a whitish film, closing neither night nor day, this eye met light and darkness with the same indifference, but perhaps on account of the proximity of its lively and crafty companion it never got full credit for blindness.
— from The Crushed Flower, and Other Stories by Leonid Andreyev

County Clare is not generally considered the most advanced part of Ireland, nor can Kilrush be very far distant from 'the back of Godspeed'; yet even from that storm-battered outpost of Irish ideas I was memorialised a year ago to induce the County Council to pay less attention to the improvement of cattle and more to the technical education of the peasantry.
— from Ireland In The New Century by Plunkett, Horace Curzon, Sir