‘Take it, panie ,’ says the banker, and pulling out the drawer he gives him a million.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the total of productive forces as rapidly as possible.
— from The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels

The celebrated geologist and naturalist, Von Buch, in his excellent "Description Physique des Isles Canaries" (1836, page 147), clearly expresses his belief that varieties slowly become changed into permanent species, which are no longer capable of intercrossing.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

He has stolen everything I possessed, sold everything, pawned everything; he has left me nothing—nothing!
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A young man of intellectual power, seeing beyond all the conventional errors around him, without means, feeling that ordinary work, however honourable, would for him mean failure of his life—because failure to contribute his larger truth to mankind—he finds the terrible cost of his aim to be hunger, want, a life passed amid suspicion and alienation, without sympathy, lonely, unloved—and, alas!
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Don Quixote turned upon Sancho, and with a countenance glowing with anger said to him, "Is it possible, Sancho, there is anyone in the whole world who will say thou art not a fool, with a lining to match, and I know not what trimmings of impertinence and roguery?
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

So, too, Negro enfranchisement meant reconstruction, with its theft and bribery and incompetency as well as its public schools and enlightened, social legislation.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Further, its present state cannot be improved, and while there is life it is certain of the unceasing sufferings and death of the individual.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

The jeweler remarked, jokingly: “There was a person who invested all her savings in precious stones.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

When that important proposition, so essentially connected with the public safety, was referred to the ministers of Valens, they were perplexed and divided; but they soon acquiesced in the flattering sentiment which seemed the most favorable to the pride, the indolence, and the avarice of their sovereign.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

It is perfectly splendid!
— from Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

Here are the honeysuckers, yellow-eared, blue-cheeked, and golden-crowned; and the crimson-throated manakin, with its pleasant song; and the spotted finch, with red eyes; and the scarlet-backed warbler and the pretty thrush, black-crowned and orange-breasted, whose piping in the early morning was the cheerfullest of all the birds; and the yellow-rumped fly-catcher, fussing about, and chattering like a magpie.
— from Joshua Marvel by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

He ought to moderate his voice, like those little birds who are singing in the lime-trees over there in our neighbor's garden, but that is an art only acquired in polite society.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Albertus Magnus followed Aristotle in defining mathematical entities as separable "in imagination," "in thought" but not "in reality" ( in phantasmate, secundum rationem, non secundum esse ) from the sensible matter to which "they are conjoined by existence" ( per esse sunt coniunctae ); and St. Thomas said that mathematics "though the objects it considers are not separate, yet considers them in so far as they are separate"
— from The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico by Benedetto Croce

The continental bills had so depreciated that seven hundred dollars in paper sold for one dollar in specie.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.—September, 1851—Vol. III. by Various

Governmental control of economic affairs while still heavy has gradually lessened over the past decade with increasing privatization, simplification of the tax structure, and a prudent approach to debt.
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Can you show how these twelve men may lunch together on eleven days in pairs, so that no two of them shall ever sit twice together?
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

I snuck another look at him as I sped along the Disney back-roads, lined with sweaty Florida pines and immaculate purple signage.
— from Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow