She was called Raton, a name which my memory has happily preserved.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
A man cannot speak to his son but as a father; to his wife but as a husband; to his enemy but upon terms; whereas, a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon
Cold, he called her, selfish, only caring about herself, a foreigner with a bad nature, caring really about nothing, having no proper feelings at the bottom of her, and no proper niceness.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
At the annual convention of the National Coffee Roasters Association, November 2, 1921, Professor Prescott made a further report, in which he stated that investigations on coffee brewing had disclosed that coffee made with water between 185° and 200° was to be preferred to coffee made with the water at actual boiling temperature (212°), that the chemical action was far less vigorous, and that the resulting infusion retained all the fine flavors and was freer from certain bitter or astringent flavors than that made at the higher temperature.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
The extraordinary details which I am now called upon to make public, will be found to form, as regards sequence of time, the primary branch of a series of scarcely intelligible coincidences, whose secondary or concluding branch will be recognized by all readers in the late murder of Mary Cecila Rogers, at New York.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe
Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up with these requirements.
— from Daemonologie. by King of England James I
"Me bello e tanto digressum et cæde recenti, Attrectare nefas, donec me flumine vivo Abluero.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey
Desires constantly renewed and never fully satisfied are more terrible than the torments of hell.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
Thence I walked home, calling a little in Paul’s Churchyard, and, I thank God, can read and never buy a book, though I have a great mind to it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys
Accredited also to Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
— from Uncle Sam Abroad by Jacob Elon Conner
The excited passions and the bitter hatred of the two parties had 48 time to abate during her reign, and the country rose above narrow partisanship to the worthier occupation of advancing the common welfare of the nation.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 2 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz
It isn't a case of pin-money with her; it's a case of clothing, rent, and nourishment.
— from The Business of Life by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
All right I trow there; where music is , contentment rests, and no plague.
— from William Shakespeare as He Lived: An Historical Tale by Henry Curling
Vermont lies upon one side of the Connecticut river, and New Hampshire upon the other side.
— from Marco Paul's Voyages and Travels; Vermont by Jacob Abbott
Why, what do you suppose would become of my ledger and cash-book, my office and business, if I and my clerks raved about nature as you do?
— from Digging for Gold: Adventures in California by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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