Why didn't you help her?" "We can't judge by our present standards, Boris Pietrovich.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"We can't judge by our present standards, Boris Pietrovich.
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The cabinet ministers were nominated and confirmed the same day—the Senate, as always, being convened on the 4th day of March for that purpose: James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, Secretary of State; Robert J. Walker, of Mississippi, Secretary of the Treasury; William L. Marcy, of New York, Secretary at War; George Bancroft, of Massachusetts, Secretary of the Navy; Cave Johnson, of Tennessee, Postmaster-general; John Y. Mason, of Virginia, Attorney-general.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

If you examine into the history of rogues, you will find they are as truly manufactured articles as anything else, and it is just because our present system of political economy gives so large a stimulus to that manufacture that you may know it to be a false one.
— from Unto This Last, and Other Essays on Political Economy by John Ruskin

The town was no more free than other country towns from the hatreds and jealousies bred of party spirit.
— from The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac

He took the letters out of her hand, and protested: "Of course they're absurd, Rachel; of course they say things just because other people say them, but even so, what a nice woman Miss Allan is; you can't deny that; and Mrs. Thornbury too; she's got too many children I grant you, but if half-a-dozen of them had gone to the bad instead of rising infallibly to the tops of their trees—hasn't she a kind of beauty—of elemental simplicity as Flushing would say?
— from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf

James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, served in the Senate from 1834 till 1845, when he became Secretary of State under President Polk.
— from The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various

[Pg 139] century—a life comfortless and rude, judged by our present standards.
— from In Unfamiliar England A Record of a Seven Thousand Mile Tour by Motor of the Unfrequented Nooks and Corners, and the Shrines of Especial Interest, in England; With Incursions into Scotland and Ireland. by Thos. D. (Thomas Dowler) Murphy

But then you think, What's the use of going after something you don't want, just because other people say you can't have it?”
— from The Moneychangers by Upton Sinclair

In the body of the Church a great cross and an image of Christ and Mary and John, being of plate silver, partly gilt.
— from Royal Winchester: Wanderings in and about the Ancient Capital of England by A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan) L'Estrange

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— from Motion Pictures 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office