Sat all the morning, where among other things I did the first unkind [thing] that ever I did design to Sir W. Warren, but I did it now to some purpose, to make him sensible how little any man’s friendship shall avail him if he wants money.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Having admitted all this, do I need to say that I am experienced in questions of decadence?
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

And while we were dining I noticed the special kind of friendly familiarity which had struck me from the start between the baron and the peasant.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

If the inhabitants of one continent formerly differed greatly from those of another continent, so will their modified descendants still differ in nearly the same manner and degree.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

But to teach out of the Old Testament that Jesus was Christ, (that is to say, King,) and risen from the dead, is not to say, that men are bound after they beleeve it, to obey those that tell them so, against the laws, and commands of their Soveraigns; but that they shall doe wisely, to expect the coming of Christ hereafter, in Patience, and Faith, with Obedience to their present Magistrates.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

And here I cannot but smile to think how I have paid myself in showing the foppery of this kind of learning, who myself am so manifest an example; for, do I not the same thing throughout almost this whole composition?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Did I not think so?
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

But a little dog (in Normandy they say “quin”), a little puppy who would bark.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

He who is always keen and ready for anything, delighted with every amusing incident, willing to overlook shortcomings, and apparently oblivious of discomfort, is, needless to say, the one first included on the next trip.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

But there is no difficulty in navigating the stream from Bridgeport to Kelly's Ferry.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

But why at this day is not the same respect and consideration had?
— from The Apology of the Church of England by John Jewel

In 1880 this was the centre of the Negro population, but business has entered some of the streets, the Pennsylvania Railroad has scooped out acres for its terminal, and while the colored houses do [Pg 36] not diminish in number, they show no decided increase.
— from Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York by Mary White Ovington

The miracle is that the church survived such destructive influences, not that she suffered by them."
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

In cases of serious illness, when it is [Pg 89] unmistakable that death is near, the sick person is taken out of the hut, if it is at all possible to remove him, without causing him instant death, as the spirits obtain easier access to the "Skerm" than to the interior of the hut.
— from Basutoland: Its Legends and Customs by Minnie Martin

The embryo of Hirudo would appear from the researches of Robin to develop in nearly the same way as that of Nephelis.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 2 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Invertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

Diminished in numbers, the slave population of the southern states, which by their magnitude alarms its proprietors, will be easily secured.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 by Various

The Editor deems it necessary to state his conviction that all the important facts and documents relative to the "Roman Catholic Question" have appeared in the pages of these Pamphlets.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 73, March 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

These wretches, I must inform you, my dear friends, had found means to make prizes of those vessels from some Europeans upon the coast of Guinea, and tasting the sweets of luxury, had formed colonies in several new discovered islands near the South Pole, where they had a variety of plantations of such matters as would only grow in the coldest climates.
— from The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe

They vowed to die together, for the young woman did not doubt that the law would find them guilty of the murder of the Englishman, and as they were not sure that they would be allowed to embrace each other again on the scaffold they did it now to suffocation, and vied with each other in watering themselves with tears.
— from Abbé Aubain and Mosaics by Prosper Mérimée