Come to me, friend or foe, And tell me who is victor, York or Warwick?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

It is a core in our actual experiences, never existing in isolation except possibly in very young infants.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

30 —Sí, sí es verdad—repuso la señora, interrumpiéndole vivamente y procurando recobrar su habitual dulzura.—No lo niego.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

I have always looked forward to your enjoyment of your present fortune, and you may recollect that, even when I had to make confession of itto my cure, I viewed your successes with satisfaction: now, with the greater propriety and freedom, I embrace them affectionately.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Yulian Mastakovitch was so kind, so attentive, so gracious to-day; he does not often talk to me; he came up to me: 'Well, how goes it, Vasya' (yes, really, he called me Vasya), 'are you going to have a good time for the holiday, eh?' he laughed.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

‘In many ’tis in vain you seek What only can be found in one.’
— from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

“Yes, it is his spirit that hovers over your life, Sybil; and in vain you would forget what haunts your heart.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

She called him back, and said: “I value your vote, Mr. Trollop, but I value your influence more.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

By the Misna, a daily debt was imposed on an idle, vigorous, young husband; twice a week on a citizen; once on a peasant; once in thirty days on a camel-driver; once in six months on a seaman.
— 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

Constitution: old Soviet constitution (adopted NA 1979) is still in effect but has been heavily amended during the past few years; a new constitution is expected in 1994 Legal system: based on civil law system; no judicial review of legislative acts; does not accept compulsory ICJ jurisdiction but accepts many UN and CSCE documents Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state: President Mircea SNEGUR (since 3 September 1990); election last held 8 December 1991 (next to be held NA 1996); results - Mircea SNEGUR ran unopposed and won 98.17% of vote; note - President SNEGUR was named executive president by the Supreme Soviet on 3 September 1990 and was confirmed by popular election on 8 December 1991 head of government: Prime Minister Andrei SANGHALI (since 1 July 1992; reappointed 5 April 1994 after elections for new legislature) cabinet: Council of Ministers; appointed by the president on recommendation of the prime minister Legislative branch: unicameral Parliament: elections last held 27 February 1994 (next to be held NA 1999); results - percent by party NA; seats - (104 total) Agrarian-Democratic Party 56, Socialist/Yedinstvo Bloc 28, Peasants and Intellectual Bloc 11, Christian Democratic Popular Front 9 Judicial branch: Supreme Court Political parties and leaders: Christian Democratic Popular Front (formerly Moldovan Popular Front), Iurie ROSCA, chairman; Yedinstvo Intermovement, V. YAKOVLEV, chairman; Social Democratic Party, Oazu NANTOI, chairman, two other chairmen; Agrarian-Democratic Party, Dumitru MOTPAN, chairman; Democratic Party, Gheorghe GHIMPU, chairman; Democratic Labor Party, Alexandru ARSENI, chairman; Reform Party, Anatol SELARU; Republican Party, Victor PUSCAS; Socialist Party, Valeriu SENIC, chairman; Communist Party, Vladimir VORONIN
— from The 1994 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

THE ANGEL Ye know me not, sweet sisters?—All in vain Ye seek your lost ones in the shapes they wore; The flower once opened may not bud again, The fruit once fallen finds the stem no more.
— from The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 06 Poems from the Breakfast Table Series by Oliver Wendell Holmes

STROPHE I. Ye shades, where sacred truth is sought; Groves, where immortal sages taught: Where heavenly visions Plato fired, And Epicurus' lay inspired; In vain your guiltless laurels stood Unspotted long with human blood.
— from The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by Alexander Pope

I visited y e Widow Yesterday, who bears her Affliction with as much patience and resignation as can be expected.
— from The Academic Gregories by Agnes Grainger Stewart

"I know," she said, "just what is at the back of your mind, and all these innumerable villages you are amusing yourself by revisiting, is but a beginning, a preliminary canter.
— from A Traveller in Little Things by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

“Certainly,” he replied; “what other purpose do you suppose I could have in visiting you here in the dead of night?
— from Under the Meteor Flag: Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War by Harry Collingwood

Mrs. B. The quantity of motion you communicate to the stone would not influence its duration; if you threw it with little force it would move slowly, for its velocity you must remember, will be proportional to the force with which it is projected; but if there is nothing to obstruct its passage, it will continue to move with the same velocity, and in the same direction as when you first projected it.
— from Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained by Mrs. (Jane Haldimand) Marcet

But in doing this, I vowed you should no longer be bound when it should be in my power to release you.
— from Frederick the Great and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach