Der Mensch ist nicht geboren frei
— 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.

The natives express their ideas on this subject very characteristically: “The Dobu man is not good as we are.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Guy de Maupassant is never greater than when appealing to the primitive link of tragic affiliation that binds us to all living flesh and blood.
— from Suspended Judgments: Essays on Books and Sensations by John Cowper Powys

In due course the jury retired, but had no sooner reached their room and closed the door than the old Teuton cried, "Dot man iss not guilty!"
— from Courts and Criminals by Arthur Cheney Train

He remained impervious to argument for seventeen hours, declining to discuss the evidence, and muttering at intervals, "Dot man iss not guilty!"
— from Courts and Criminals by Arthur Cheney Train

The in-curving theory of 430 cyclones, as worked out by Dr. Meldrum, is now generally adopted, and it would appear that the rules given for the guidance of ships in the Southern Indian Ocean have been the means of saving much life and property.
— from The Last Voyage: To India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Annie Brassey

Now, if we mark the ordinary scriptural representation, especially as to the last class, we cannot help seeing that there comes out this principle:—The thing of all others that unfits men for the reception of Christ as a Saviour, and for the simple reliance on His atoning blood and divine mercy, is not gross, long profligacy, and outward, vehement transgression; but it is self-complacency, clean, fatal self-righteousness and self-sufficiency.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren

‘Please kiss my words and forgive me, as you read this, dear mamma; I never guessed I was going to be so like Dolores.
— from Beechcroft at Rockstone by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Now, if he was taking it up in this way, he wad set up the tother’s birse, and maybe do mair ill nor gude—he’s done that twice or thrice about thae mine-warks; ye wad thought Sir Arthur had a pleasure in gaun on wi’ them the deeper, the mair he was warned against it by Monkbarns.”
— from The Antiquary — Complete by Walter Scott

The challenge underlying prohibition is twofold: Does prohibition prohibit, and, if it does, may it not generate evils peculiarly its own?
— from Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography by Henry Watterson