But I should regard it as a complete contradiction of myself, if I expected to find ears and eyes for my truths to-day: the fact that no one listens to me, that no one knows how to receive at my hands to-day, is not only comprehensible, it seems to me quite the proper thing.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Other countries, however, notwithstanding all the invidious restraints by which it is meant to exclude them, frequently enjoy a greater share of the real benefit of it.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

I have done hating ’em, and am now come to despise ’em; the next thing I have to do is eternally to forget ’em.
— from The Way of the World by William Congreve

[ 12 ] As long as languages contain a future perfect tense, determinists, following the bent of laziness or passion, the lines of least resistance, can reply in that tense, saying, "It will have been fated," to the still small voice which urges an opposite course; and thus excuse themselves from effort in a quite unanswerable way. { 184} THE MORAL PHILOSOPHER AND THE MORAL LIFE.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

And when they were answered, that the senate would send deputies to the king; some of the principal persons of that order were forthwith despatched to represent to him "that it was not because the answer could not have been given in a few words, that the royal family would not be received, that select members of the senate had been deputed to him, rather than an answer given to his ambassadors at Rome; but (it was done) that all mention of the matter might be put an end to for evermore, and that their minds might not be disturbed amid so many mutual acts of kindness, by his requiring what was adverse to the liberty of the Roman people, and by their denying to him to whom they would willingly deny nothing, unless they would submit to their own ruin.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Pesca's quaint announcement of the means by which he had procured me my present employment; the farewell evening I had passed with my mother and sister; even my mysterious adventure on the way home from Hampstead—had all become like events which might have occurred at some former epoch of my existence.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

[44-1] que me hacía saber que existía tal Francia en el mundo.... —¡Ah! ¿
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

In his letter to Phanias, the Peripatetic, among other subjects he speaks of the court of justice in the following terms: “It is not only out of the question to find an assembly (πανήγυρις), but it is not easy to find even a company (συνέδριον) such as one would like; but yet recitations produce corrections of the judgment.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

On the thirty-sixth year after the first tribunes, ten were elected, two from each class; and provision was made that they should be elected in this manner for the future.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

I did not know at the time that they no longer cared even to find excuses, and that all such considerations were from that day a thing of the past.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

GLOSTER Look, how this ring encompasseth thy finger, Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart; Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.
— from The Tragedy of King Richard III by William Shakespeare

Here, for instance, is a quite typical passage from Le Duel , by M. Henri Lavedan, an author of no small repute; and it would be easy to find even more magniloquent tirades in the works of almost any of his contemporaries.
— from Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship by William Archer

The foreigners of the first description, of course, were in competition with our native seamen, and either exclude them from employment, or lessen the rate of their wages.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Perhaps the introduction of spirituous liquors may have tended to diminish the population; if so, this is almost an incurable evil; and certainly the division of the country, or the cultivated lands into large estates, as they were granted to many of the conquerors and first settlers, was a pernicious error, the fatal effects of which are often felt, and are inimical to the increase of population.
— from Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twenty Years' Residence in South America (Vol 1 of 3) Containing travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results by Stevenson, William Bennet, active 1803-1825

Does Fiesco tremble to encounter the first efforts of my sword? FIESCO.
— from Fiesco; or, the Genoese Conspiracy: A Tragedy by Friedrich Schiller

Contrariwise, thought of grave and meditative character, admiration, reverence, and all the deeper and calmer feelings, require a deliberative, slow-timed utterance, with long quantities for accented syllables, and extended time for even unaccented syllables.
— from The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Department of Education

Essay on King. of New Spain, vol. iv) says that the great epidemics at Panama and Callao are "marked" by the arrival of ships from Chile, because the people from that temperate region first experience the fatal effects of the torrid zones.
— from Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N. by Charles Darwin