That is why science very quickly declined in Greece, once Socrates had inoculated scientific work with the disease of morality.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

All the men disappear in groups or singly with a guide.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

That love to mankind, without any redeeming intention in the background, is only an ADDITIONAL folly and brutishness, that the inclination to this love has first to get its proportion, its delicacy, its gram of salt and sprinkling of ambergris from a higher inclination—whoever first perceived and "experienced" this, however his tongue may have stammered as it attempted to express such a delicate matter, let him for all time be holy and respected, as the man who has so far flown highest and gone astray in the finest fashion! 61.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

'Peace,' said the abbess, when Emily was going to speak, 'the delirium is going off, she will soon revive.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

"Devoid I go of spouse and pleasure; I will beguile myself with vengeful thoughts."
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

Tronchin, whom they had no difficulty in gaining over, seconded them powerfully, and became the most violent of my persecutors, without having against me, any more than Grimm had, the least subject of complaint.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

At noon dined, and then to, the ‘Change, and there walked two hours or more with Sir W. Warren, who after much discourse in general of Sir W. Batten’s dealings, he fell to talk how every body must live by their places, and that he was willing, if I desired it, that I should go shares with him in anything that he deals in.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

That, I suppose, is a little too much refined; but his discourse in general of sound was mighty fine.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The third day it gets out still more quickly, and before long it goes straight to the latch and lifts it at once.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

The Whirlpoolers, though only here for the between seasons, are constantly entertaining among themselves, and hardly a day passes but a coaching party drives up from town with week-end golfers for whom a dance is given, or stops en route to the Berkshires or some farther point.
— from People of the Whirlpool From The Experience Book of a Commuter's Wife by Mabel Osgood Wright

When a divorce is granted on such application, the wife shall receive back the estate which the husband had with her at the marriage, unless she has been guilty of conduct such as by the laws of the state would forfeit her right of dower; and when the husband's conduct is the cause of separation, she is entitled to the same share of his real and personal property as if he were dead.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 3 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

Comforted is my mind and heart, For he hath stilled it; As my God did promise me, Death is grown only slumber.
— from Rampolli by George MacDonald

Do you not know when your dog is glad or sorry, thirsty or hungry, proud or ashamed?
— from Text books of art education, v. 4 of 7. Book IV, Fourth Year by Bonnie E. Snow

If you think you can do it, get out some of the men an’ cover the trails to the mine on horses.
— from The Coyote A Western Story by James Roberts