At the same time an acquaintance with the best current literature is necessary to modern society, and it is not sufficient to have read a book without being able to pass a judgment upon it.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

It was a tight fit certainly, but the dear creature liked it none the worse for that.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

To take their judgment as our constant law is not the way to form our own judgment.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Dear friend!” repeated Countess Lidia Ivanovna, never taking her eyes off his, and suddenly her eyebrows rose at the inner corners, describing a triangle on her forehead, her ugly yellow face became still uglier, but Alexey Alexandrovitch felt that she was sorry for him and was preparing to cry.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Again: whereas Lust is frequently opposed to Moral Choice, Lust is not to Lust.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

A conventional life is not the only wholesome form of existence, and is certainly a most unwholesome and deadening form to the artist; and neither is a dissipated life the only unconventional one open to him.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

My conclusion then is this: that some of the restitution of function (especially where the cortical lesion is not too great) is probably due to genuinely vicarious function on the part of the centres that remain; whilst some of it is due to the passing off of inhibitions.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

They might enter it for some gloomy end which Allah permits in his inscrutable wisdom; but they could leave it no trace when they pass from it, because there is no conscience where soul is wanting.
— from A Strange Story — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

"Hm," he muttered, glancing from the window at the women and children in the field, "they do not sense the danger we constantly live in, now that the French have stirred up the Indians.
— from Some Three Hundred Years Ago by Edith Gilman Brewster

A plain bourgeois, a common laborer is not transformed with impunity into an apostle or liberator of the human species.—For, it is not his country that he would save, but the entire race.
— from The French Revolution - Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine

[pg 83] IV The more closely one examines the subject, the more clear and certain becomes the fact that there is only one fundamental artistic difference between the novel and the play, and that difference (to which I shall come later) is not the difference which would be generally named as distinguishing the play from the novel.
— from The Author's Craft by Arnold Bennett

It is not meant to be asserted by this, that the novelist is to be confined strictly to unities like the Greek drama, or that the same variety, within certain limits, is not to be presented in the pages of romance, which we see every day around us in real life.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various

About an hour before sunset, however, the pair turned up at the cove, and while Flora went on board the cutter, Leslie instructed Nicholls to accompany him back to the camp, which they reached just as darkness fell.
— from Dick Leslie's Luck: A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure by Harry Collingwood

It is found throughout the State, and is probably more common late in November than at any other time; several having been taken in Westfield, and also in Berkshire County, among the Green Mountains.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

And while such was the apparent disposition, or indifference to any disposition in particular, of the English towards the Indians,—and such the consequent liability, if not the reasonable prospect on the part of the latter, if the former should occupy Canada,—Pontiac was not likely to forget that they had conquered the French.
— from Indian Biography; Vol. 2 (of 2) Or, An Historical Account of Those Individuals Who Have Been Distinguished among the North American Natives as Orators, Warriors, Statesmen, and Other Remarkable Characters by B. B. (Benjamin Bussey) Thatcher

He handed Sammy a hardcopy of a chic little investment newsletter that was so expensive to subscribe to that he’d suspected until now that it might just be a rumor.
— from Makers by Cory Doctorow