All of which is here recorded to the honour of that good Christian pair, representatives of hundreds of other good Christian pairs as conscientious and as useful, who merge the smallness of their work in its greatness, and feel in no danger of losing dignity when they adapt themselves to incomprehensible humbugs.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

This gentleman had been sent to excuse his master to his Majesty about a thing of very great consequence, which was this: the King, still to maintain some intelligence with Italy, out of which he had lately been driven, and particularly with the duchy of Milan, had thought it convenient to have a gentleman on his behalf to be with that Duke: an ambassador in effect, but in outward appearance a private person who pretended to reside there upon his own particular affairs; for the Duke, much more depending upon the Emperor, especially at a time when he was in a treaty of marriage with his niece, daughter to the King of Denmark, who is now dowager of Lorraine, could not manifest any practice and conference with us without his great interest.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

In that rude state of society, in which there is no division of labour, in which exchanges are seldom made, and in which every man provides every thing for himself, it is not necessary that any stock should be accumulated, or stored up before-hand, in order to carry on the business of the society.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

But as for the multitude of sermons ready printed and piled up, on every text that is not difficult, our London trading St. Thomas in his vestry, and add to boot St. Martin and St. Hugh, have not within their hallowed limits more vendible ware of all sorts ready made: so that penury he never need fear of pulpit provision, having where so plenteously to refresh his magazine.
— from Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England by John Milton

See p. 17 .] 2. (1) A logician, who eats pork-chops for supper, will probably lose money; (2) A gambler, whose appetite is not ravenous, will probably lose money; (3) A man who is depressed, having lost money and being likely to lose more, always rises at 5 a.m.; (4) A man, who neither gambles nor eats pork-chops for supper, is sure to have a ravenous appetite; (5) A lively man, who goes to bed before 4 a.m., had better take to cab-driving; (6) A man with a ravenous appetite, who has not lost money and does not rise at 5 a.m., always eats pork-chops for supper; (7) A logician, who is in danger of losing money, had better take to cab-driving; (8) An earnest gambler, who is depressed though he has not lost money, is in no danger of losing any; (9) A man, who does not gamble, and whose appetite is not ravenous, is always lively; pg188 (10) A lively logician, who is really in earnest, is in no danger of losing money; (11) A man with a ravenous appetite has no need to take to cab-driving, if he is really in earnest; (12) A gambler, who is depressed though in no danger of losing money, sits up till 4 a.m. (13) A man, who has lost money and does not eat pork-chops for supper, had better take to cab-driving, unless he gets up at 5 a.m. (14) A gambler, who goes to bed before 4 a.m., need not take to cab-driving, unless he has a ravenous appetite; (15) A man with a ravenous appetite, who is depressed though in no danger of losing, is a gambler.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

The sailor can then grasp either one as he goes about and there is no danger of losing the paddles overboard.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

The gamin is not devoid of literary intuition.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

“I never dreamed of lepers.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

There is no department of learning so well capable of doing this thing as biology.
— from College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper

In short there is no division of labor; “each cell is a world unto itself.”
— from A Class Room Logic Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching by George Hastings McNair

He was an elderly, gray-headed man, a parish doctor, hard-worked and poorly paid; but he had a keen eye for the beautiful in Nature, dead or living, and familiar as this spot was to his eye, it always impressed him.
— from Wyllard's Weird: A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Justice is not dependent on love for its right to be.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

She had done right, then, in not despairing of life, in not judging that everyone must be altogether good or altogether bad.
— from The Joy of Life [La joie de vivre] by Émile Zola

The man loves you as I never dreamed of loving any woman, as I am incapable of loving any woman.
— from The Cords of Vanity: A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell

It was inferred from the measurements of M. Lepére, that the level of the Mediterranean, near Alexandria, was lower by 26 feet 6 inches, than the Red Sea near Suez at low water, and about 30 feet lower than the Red Sea at the same place at high water, 386 but Mr. Robert Stevenson affirms, as the result of a more recent survey, that there is no difference of level between the two seas.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

"—As this opinion of the British Government was evidently founded upon their belief, that the revocation of the Orders in Council would either prevent war, if not declared, or lead to an immediate peace, had hostilities
— from Some Account of the Public Life of the Late Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, Bart. Particularly of His Services in the Canadas, Including a Reply to the Strictures on His Military Character, Contained in an Article in the Quarterly Review by E. B. Brenton

It is highly probable that St. Cybi did found the church that bears his name, though the structure as it stands is no doubt of later date.
— from A Record of St. Cybi's Church, Holyhead and the Sermon preached after its Restoration, 1879 by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley