There is no vice or folly that requires so much 40 nicety and skill to manage as vanity.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

“It is no vision, Odysseus, for I am Helen’s self,” she answered gently.
— from The World's Desire by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

“Should she be fake, there is no virtue or faith in womankind, and I would as lief throw away my life in the first battle in which I am engaged as live.”
— from Foxholme Hall, and Other Tales by William Henry Giles Kingston

Such tallage at will is not very often found in documents, although the lord sometimes retained his prerogative in this respect even when sanctioning the customary form of renders and services.
— from The Danes in Lancashire and Yorkshire by S. W. Partington

The end is not violent or factitious, it is necessary and inevitable.
— from The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury

We could tell, how Mrs. Tibbs forthwith fainted away, and how it required the united strength of Mr. Wisbottle and Mr. Alfred Tomkins to hold her in her chair; how Mr. Evenson explained, and how his explanation was evidently disbelieved; how Agnes repelled the accusations of Mrs. Tibbs by proving that she was negotiating with Mr. O’Bleary to influence her mistress’s affections in his behalf; and how Mr. Gobler threw a damp counterpane on the hopes of Mr. O’Bleary by avowing that he (Gobler) had already proposed to, and been accepted by, Mrs. Bloss; how Agnes was discharged from that lady’s service; how Mr. O’Bleary discharged himself from Mrs. Tibbs’s house, without going through the form of previously discharging his bill; and how that disappointed young gentleman rails against England and the English, and vows there is no virtue or fine feeling extant, ‘except in Ireland.’
— from Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People by Charles Dickens

There is no vestige of foundation for such a rumour."
— from The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I by Burton Jesse Hendrick

It had the finality which it seems to have had nowhere since the war; it had certain fixed ideals, which were none the less graceful and becoming because they were the simple old American ideals, now vanished, or fast vanishing, before the knowledge of good and evil as they have it in Europe, and as it has imparted itself to American travel and sojourn.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature Essays by William Dean Howells

The function of the alkalies is not very obvious, for it has been shown that formaldehyde will tan also in neutral and in acid solution.
— from Animal Proteins by Hugh Garner Bennett

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— from Organization: How Armies are Formed for War by Hubert Foster