Colonel Mason added: "This is public land, and the gold is the property of the United States; all of you here are trespassers, but, as the Government is benefited by your getting out the gold, I do not intend to interfere."
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

MEPHISTOPHELES The learned gentleman I bow before: You've made me roundly sweat, that's certain!
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You left it behind on purpose, so as not to give it back, because you knew I would ask for it?
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It’s better to go it blind, because you feel the power, though you can’t see where it comes from.
— from The Right of Way — Complete by Gilbert Parker

“Because this morning papa was putting on his winter underclothes and he found it wasn't there, and they looked all over and everywhere, and he was pretty mad, and said he knew it was those cheap plumbers stole it that mamma got instead of the regular plumbers he always used to have, and he said there wasn't any chance ever gettin' it back, because you couldn't tell which one took it, and they'd all swear it wasn't them.
— from Penrod and Sam by Booth Tarkington

But there was that gloomy, insurmountable barrier between you and a full, complete emancipation.
— from Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen

"My destination is Ten Mile Gulch, I believe; but you have such horrid names out here."
— from Romance of California Life Illustrated by Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pathetic and Humorous by John Habberton

We should get it back, because you'd give it to us.
— from The Side Of The Angels: A Novel by Basil King

You will in all probability go into business, but you shall not know where, or how, any article of commerce is produced, or the difference between an export or an import, or the meaning of the word "capital."
— from Science & Education: Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley