Sometimes the dew-drops would roll away, and then they fell down between the stems of the long grass, and caused a great deal of laughing and noise among the other little people.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

And this holds good for innovators in every department of life, and not only in religion and politics.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I read Dickens and Shakespear without shame or stint; but their pregnant observations and demonstrations of life are not co-ordinated into any philosophy or religion: on the contrary, Dickens's sentimental assumptions are violently contradicted by his observations; and Shakespear's pessimism is only his wounded humanity.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

Each had an ingredient, though these differed in stress and direction, of local Asian nationalism.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Ill-mannered servants, incorrect liveries or service, sloppily dished food, carelessness in any of the details that to well-bred people constitute the decencies of living, are no more tolerated in the smallest cottage than in the palace.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Indeed, the industrial ideal would be an international commu nity with universal free trade, extreme division of labour, and no unproductive consumption.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start; Who through long days of labor, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

They used to talk about an edict in golden letters, about the division of lands, about new land, about treasures; they hinted at something.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Alone, and unattended, let me try If yet I share the old man's memory: If those dim eyes can yet Ulysses know (Their light and dearest object long ago), Now changed with time, with absence and with woe."
— from The Odyssey by Homer

When I have finished I shall have shown myself a regular pedant, I shall have made a great display of learning, and not one single idea has he understood.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

By day or late at night they produced the same impression of men hastening somewhere and agitated by something, yet, in spite of their extreme exhaustion, their faces remained full of courage and kindly welcome, their voices friendly, their movements rapid. .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

When he was but nineteen years old he wrote and published in London "A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain."
— from Four American Leaders by Charles William Eliot

Nor would the author recommend their being encouraged to live in Towns, except they are truly desirous of leading a new life, as it is almost certain that their morals would be greatly corrupted thereby: and they would be capable of more extensive injury to society, should they take to their wandering habits again.
— from The Gipsies' Advocate Or, Observations on the Origin, Character, Manners, and Habits of the English Gipsies by James Crabb

The actual work to be done is small, the daily cleaning of the lamps requiring only two or three hours, and other chores being very light, and the 218 men nearly die of loneliness and “nothing to do.”
— from The Book of the Ocean by Ernest Ingersoll

These great gulphs in the two continents are under the same degrees of latitude, and nearly of the same extent.
— from Buffon's Natural History, Volume 02 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Mineral, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

In a very short time Austin had overcome the initial difficulties of locomotion, and now began to take regular exercise out of doors.
— from Austin and His Friends by Frederic Henry Balfour

The difficulties which in other parts of our Asiatic territories stand in the way of the participation of natives in the studies and amusements of Anglo-Indian residents, in consequence of the difference of language, are not felt in Bombay.
— from Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay by Emma Roberts

Arriving at last at Epsom, she succeeded in humbugging the worthy bumpkins of that place so decidedly, that a subscription was set on foot to keep her among them; but her fame extending to the metropolis, the dupes of London, a numerous class then as well as now, thought it no trouble to go ten miles to see the conjuror, till at length, she was pleased to bless the afflicted of London with her presence, and once a week drove to the Grecian Coffee-house, in a coach and six, with out-riders!
— from The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts, July-December, 1827 by Various

Interview with Governor Keith—Arrangements to go to England in the Annis—Only one vessel a year to sail—Still works for Keimer—The latter a singular Man—Experiment of a Vegetable Diet—Keimer's Abhorrence of it—Eats the whole of a Pig at last—How Benjamin came to relinquish a Vegetable Diet—Courting Miss Read—Her Mother objects to Engagement—Ralph resolves to go with him—Four or Five Printing-offices then, and Two or Three Thousand now—The Governor's Letters—Set Sail—Arrival in London—Discovers that his Letters are Worthless—The Governor a Deceiver—Tells his Story to [Pg xiv] Denham—Goes to Work in a Printing-office—An Advantage of written Composition—His "Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain"—Won him Fame—Bargain with a Bookseller—Beer-drinking in the Office—Benjamin's Opposition to it—He wrought a Reform—His Firmness and Independence—Swimming—Drawn a Mile by his Kite on the Water—Advised to open a Swimming-School—Decides on Returning to America—A Scene forty years after 204-219 CHAPTER XXII.
— from The Printer Boy. Or How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark. An Example for Youth. by William Makepeace Thayer