Truth contradicts our nature, error does not, and for a very simple reason: truth requires us to regard ourselves as limited, error flatters us to think of ourselves as in one or other way unlimited.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

v [B126; c16] come out not evenly divisible.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

As soon as the coloured people found out that he could read, a newspaper was secured, and at the close of nearly every day's work this young man would be surrounded by a group of men and women who were anxious to hear him read the news contained in the papers.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

Whatever be the foreign commodity with which the foreign goods for home consumption are purchased, it can occasion no essential difference, either in the nature of the trade, or in the encouragement and support which it can give to the productive labour of the country from which it is carried on.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

But it was now intended that in addition to this sum there should be retained by the government and credited to a sinking fund, the other half of the sums due to the companies for government transportation; proceeding still further, the Thurman bill provided that in case the whole of the government transportation accounts, added to the 5 per cent of net earnings, did not make a sum equal to 25 per cent of net earnings, then the Pacific railroads should pay into the sinking fund such sums not exceeding $1,200,000 for the Central Pacific and $850,000 for the Union Pacific, as would bring the companies’ payment up to 25 per cent.
— from Chapters on the History of the Southern Pacific by Stuart Daggett

Whether you take that chance or not entirely depends upon yourself.
— from The Secret House by Edgar Wallace

6 Flemish Harpsichords Antwerp was the harpsichord-making center of northern Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries.
— from Harpsichords and Clavichords by Cynthia A. (Cynthia Adams) Hoover

But he came over nearly every day for four years, and they grew to love each other like brother and sister.
— from The Story of Dago by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

At our Stafford House Hospital in Erzeroum we had a continual stream of fresh cases, for the cavalry were continually making dashes against the Russians, and small affairs between outposts came off nearly every day; so that as fast as one lot of patients died or were discharged cured, a second lot were brought in.
— from Under the Red Crescent Adventures of an English Surgeon with the Turkish Army at Plevna and Erzeroum 1877-1878 by John Sandes