" Weeks and weeks went by, during which it seemed as though I neither slept nor ate, listening to the moaning, or, what was far worse, broken talk of her work, of her cares, scraps of forgotten rhymes, bits of Latin verse, law references cited letter for letter, until I needed the doctor myself, who threatened to put me from the house unless I showed a more reasonable behavior.
— from Nancy Stair: A Novel by Elinor Macartney Lane

Binder's paste is good; for library use it needs thinning.
— from A Library Primer by John Cotton Dana

"Alas friends, let us intonate not these tones but more pleasing and joyous ones!"
— from Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays Collected Works, Volume Two by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

That a free labor union is not the impractical dream of an idealist is to be found in the fact that some of the greatest and most successful of the labor organizations have always adhered to the principle of the open shop.
— from Practical Argumentation by George K. (George Kynett) Pattee