I had spent twenty-seven hours in bed, and after laughing at the mishap I felt as if I could easily believe it, for my hunger was like that of a cannibal.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In a word, the good fortune, or pleasure of another, purely as such , does not arouse in us the same direct sympathy as is certainly elicited by his misfortune, privation, or misery, purely as such .
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

[2] The term Eigennutz (self-interest) denotes Egoism, so far as the latter is guided by reason, which enables it, by means of reflection, to prosecute its purposes [Pg 151] systematically; so that animals may be called egoistic, but not self-interested ( eigennutzig ).
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

Before the union, there was a remarkable spirit of trade among the Scots, as appeared in the case of their Darien company, in which they had embarked no less than four hundred thousand pounds sterling; and in the flourishing state of the maritime towns in Fife, and on the eastern coast, enriched by their trade with France, which failed in consequence of the union.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Finally, toiling all day, and being deprived of rest at night, completely broke down her constitution, and Dr. Flint declared it was impossible she could ever become the mother of a living child.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

Man projects his instinct of truth, his "aim," to a certain extent beyond himself, in the form of a metaphysical world of Being, a "thing-in-itself," a world already to hand.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Mr Boffin having been several times in communication with this clerkly essence, both on its own ground and at the Bower, had no difficulty in identifying it when he saw it up in its dusty eyrie.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

In the year of our Lord 286, 46 Diocletian, the thirty-third from Augustus, and chosen emperor by the army, reigned twenty years, and created Maximian, surnamed Herculius, his colleague in the empire.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

You bin cuttin' up yo' capers en bouncin' 'roun' in dis neighborhood ontwel you come ter b'leeve yo'se'f de boss er de whole gang.
— from Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Francis B. (Francis Bail) Pearson

The second Baynard’s Castle, erected by the Duke of Gloucester, was some little distance to the east, also on the bank of the river.
— from Mediæval London, Volume 1: Historical & Social by Walter Besant

It must be conceded, then that the results Admiral Keyes had in view amply justify a very considerable expenditure both of material and men.
— from The British Navy in Battle by Arthur Joseph Hungerford Pollen

So he arose and walked right through the marching mass of swinging, swaying, rattling, whistling, dry-boned skeletons, and out into the sunlight of a new day where he found Fidu digging up a freshly planted lawn in search of a bone he had buried on a golf course countless eons before.
— from The Book of Gud by Harold Hersey

In a few of the stores of New York and Philadelphia the business is conducted entirely by ladies.
— from The Employments of Women: A Cyclopædia of Woman's Work by Virginia Penny

He came early because he felt that he could not endure the thought of entering a crowded church and then suffered torment as one by one the congregation nodded to him or addressed him in sepulchral whispers.
— from Green Valley by Katharine Yirsa Reynolds

“Nothing can ever be the same again.”
— from Justin Wingate, Ranchman by John Harvey Whitson