‘Because she can’t, sir,’ retorted Brass; ‘because to chafe and vex me is a part of her nature, Sir, and she will and must do it, or I don’t believe she’d have her health.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

But it may still be objected, that this coincidence is merely general and qualitative, and that it breaks down when we attempt to draw it out in detail, with the quantitative precision which Bentham introduced into the discussion.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

We have robbed it of its grimaces and divested it of its drapery; we have delivered it from the importunate familiarity of the crowd; we have deprived it of its ridiculous rigidity, its empty expression, its stiff false hair, and its hieratic muscles.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Regard it as you will the difference is only in degree.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Five or six years later, the heretical teaching which threatened the integrity of the Gospel at Colossæ shows that this type of Judaism was already strong enough within the Church to exert a dangerous influence on its doctrinal purity.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Later on, however, it dries up, its “actuality” dies away: and then only does it obtain its deep lustre and its perfume—and also, if it is destined for it, the calm eye of eternity.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

ix. note); therefore desire in one individual differs from desire in another individual, only in so far as the nature or essence of the one differs from the nature or essence of the other.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

"Just because the DHS is out, it doesn't mean that you get to just walk out of here.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

I hear that to-morrow the King and the Duke of York set out for Newmarket, by three in the morning; to some foot and horse-races, to be abroad ten or twelve days: So I away, without seeing the Duke of York; but Mr. Wren showed me the Order of Council about the balancing the Storekeeper’s accounts, passed the Council in the very terms I drew it, only I did put in my name as he that presented the book of Hosier’s preparing, and that is left out—I mean, my name—which is no great matter.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Thus it was when I had just breathed out, or in; or it was the 'first moment' of the performance, the one 'preceded by silence;' or it was 'one very close to that;' or it was 'one when we were looking forward instead of back, as now;' or it is simply represented by a number and conceived symbolically with no definite image of its date.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

When the door is open it draws well, and all the smoke goes up and out at the aperture.
— from The Silent Readers: Sixth Reader by Ethel Maltby Gehres

Find our destruction in our immoderate desire for peace German-Lutheran sixteenth-century idea of religious freedom Intentions of a government which did not know its own intentions Lord was better pleased with adverbs than nouns Make sheep of yourselves, and the wolf will eat you Necessity of kingship Neighbour's blazing roof was likely soon to fire their own Nor is the spirit of the age to be pleaded in defence Pauper client who dreamed of justice at the hands of law Seem as if born to make the idea of royalty ridiculous Shutting the stable-door when the steed is stolen String of homely proverbs worthy of
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-86) by John Lothrop Motley

The report further insisted that the Nation could not honorably plead poverty in bar of the great debt it owed its defenders, and it was accompanied by a bill providing a bounty in money at the rate of eight and one third dollars per month for the time of their service, which was drawn after conferring with intelligent men among them who fully appreciated the facts and arguments of the committee.
— from Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 by George Washington Julian

And when he arrives at the journey's end he is either defrauded of the hay outright, or he dislikes it, or it disagrees with him.
— from The Joyful Heart by Robert Haven Schauffler

A protégé, my lord, is a parasitic plant, and you cannot deprive it of its double instincts—to cling and to climb.’ ‘How witty my cousin has become since his sojourn in Ireland,’ said Maude.
— from Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever

[K] A dash denotes incomplete or insufficient data.
— from Fish Populations, Following a Drought, in the Neosho and Marais des Cygnes Rivers of Kansas by James E. Deacon

Revenge it, Henry, as thou list or dare; I did it only in despite of thee.
— from The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Christopher Marlowe

In a word, the Talmud was the educator of the Jewish nation; and this education can by no means have been a bad one, since, in spite of the disturbing influence of isolation, degradation and systematic demoralization, it fostered in the Jewish people a degree of morality which even their enemies cannot deny them.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 2 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz