The alacrity with which the old man obeyed the command, showed how much he valued the compliment thus paid to the very point of his character on which he most valued himself, next to his talent for arranging full-bottomed periwigs, which he always contended were the most becoming dresses ever invented for young gentlemen.
— from Manners: A Novel, Vol 3 by Madame Panache

I know how difficult everything is for you.
— from Abraham Lincoln: A Play by John Drinkwater

Moses admonished them with the words: "See to it now that you drive evil impulse from your hearts, that you now have but one thought and one resolution, to serve God; and that your undivided services are devoted singly and solely to the one God, for He is the God of gods and the Lord of lords.
— from The Legends of the Jews — Volume 3 by Louis Ginzberg

“My dear Emilie, I forgive you for being angry, because I never saw you angry before; and that is more than you can say for me.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 06 by Maria Edgeworth

“No Favorites” Dear Editor: I found your magazine on the newsstand while looking for another kind.
— from Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 by Various

The only way out of the difficulty, Ernestine, is for you to come and see me whenever you have time."
— from Pride: One of the Seven Cardinal Sins by Eugène Sue

what, however, few people at your age do, exert it for your own sake in the search of truth and sound knowledge.
— from Letters to His Son, 1749 On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman by Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of