15 If you sit down a mere philosopher, you will rise almost an atheist.
— 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.

Voilà pourquoi de ces deux empires, l'un est si odieux, l'autre si doux —A man protects you by what he is worth; a woman by what you are worth.
— 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.

Mr. Poyser had no time to answer, for now Arthur came up and said, “Mrs. Poyser, I'm come to request the favour of your hand for the first dance; and, Mr. Poyser, you must let me take you to my aunt, for she claims you as her partner.”
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Hither came, after we were set down, a most pretty young lady (only her hands were not white nor handsome), which pleased me well, and I found her to be sister to Mrs. Anne Wight that comes to my uncle Wight’s.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Although some of the sequelæ of the disease are most painful, yet death does not often directly result from them, nor is parangi itself a fatal disease.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 by Various

BE that as 'twill, I certainly should like, With freedom to explain, by terms oblique, To belles, how this was broken:—that was down: Assist me pray, ye NINE of high renown;
— from Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 22 by Jean de La Fontaine

The gentlemen at Todgers’s had a merry habit, too, of bestowing upon him, for the time being, the name of any notorious malefactor or minister; and sometimes when current events were flat they even sought the pages of history for these distinctions; as Mr Pitt, Young Brownrigg, and the like.
— from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

"Sweetheart," said the director, addressing me personally, "you're not dancing.
— from Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit by Thorne Smith

You drove away Miss Plympton yesterday from my gates.
— from The Living Link: A Novel by James De Mille

Meanwhile days and months passed, years made their round, and still Bee stayed among the dwarfs, incessantly amused and always full of regret for the earth.
— from Bee: The Princess of the Dwarfs by Anatole France

There must have been something—" "If it's relics uh the dim and musty past yuh mean, there was; relics to burn.
— from The Happy Family by B. M. Bower

“‘This was not agreed to, and next day, the Physicians, Chirurgeons, and Apothecaryes seemed to be dismayed, as men perplexed, yet the most part were of opinion, that the crisis was to been seene before a final dissolution.
— from The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts, July-December, 1827 by Various

As this concerns Dick and myself, perhaps you will leave us alone for a moment so that Dick may tell me."
— from Viviette by William John Locke