The company were wonder-well pleased with Fiammetta's story, all affirming that the lady had done excellently well and as it behoved unto such a brute of a man, and after it was ended, the king bade Pampinea follow on, who proceeded to say, "There are many who, speaking ignorantly, avouch that love bereaveth folk of their senses and causeth whoso loveth to become witless.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Knowledge in itself in a world of Becoming is impossible; how can knowledge be possible at all, then?
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

And now they began to take it ill that the king would not give them any part of the kingdom, but put earls into every district; for they thought earls were of inferior birth to them.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

“You know best, Pip; but don't you think you are happier as you are?” “Biddy,” I exclaimed, impatiently, “I am not at all happy as I am.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

"If I'd been the whiting," said Alice, whose thoughts were still running on the song, "I'd have said to the porpoise, 'Keep back, please: we don't want you with us!'"
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson by Lewis Carroll

Magbag-u na ku, binyal pa, I’ll change my ways, may I commit a venial sin if I don’t.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Tápun ku bísag pilay inyung pusta, I will take you on no matter how much you bet.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Now the elders of the Jews, and Hyrcanus with them, went in unto the queen, and desired that she would give them her sentiments about the present posture of affairs, for that Aristobulus was in effect lord of almost all the kingdom, by possessing of so many strong holds, and that it was absurd for them to take any counsel by themselves, how ill soever she were, whilst she was alive, and that the danger would be upon them in no long time.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

‘I was merely going on to remark, Bounderby, that we may all be more or less in the wrong, not even excepting you; and that some yielding on your part, remembering the trust you have accepted, may not only be an act of true kindness, but perhaps a debt incurred towards Louisa.’
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

“I do not know, but perhaps more than you think.
— from The Brethren by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

“Have it your way, Mr. Pine; you know best perhaps.
— from For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke

The depot has stored 4,000 rolling kitchens of the trailmobile type, these kitchens being packed in boxes, each package weighing about 4,300 pounds.
— from America's Munitions 1917-1918 by Benedict Crowell

Thus, then, I come to you to ask you if you are willing to consent to this privilege being granted to us; which assuredly will benefit your kingdom by providing a market, close to you, at which you can barter your produce for goods that you require, with us or with native traders from the east.
— from At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The fourth "quality" is the flash , or ignition, due to collision between nature and spirit, in which a new principle of activity breaks through what before was mere play of forces , and reveals something that has activity in itself, the kindling, burning power of fire, though not yet fire which gives light .
— from Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew) Jones

To such fairs the kings, barons, prelates, and gentry of the time sent their agents, or went in person, and purchased jewels, plate, cloth, spices, liquors, furniture, horses, cattle, corn, and provisions of all kinds, men and women not excepted.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Roman Invasion to the Wars of the Roses by Anonymous

He had previously been advanced to the honours of knighthood, by patent under the Great Seal, in the year 1836.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 90, July 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Before bedtime, with the assistance of a neighbouring turner, he was making experiments in one of the coolers in his father’s brew-house, a large bunch of counting-house keys being put into requisition as a motive power.
— from The Evolution of Naval Armament by Frederick Leslie Robertson

But the farther he advanced the pleasanter became his studies, and knowledge became precious for its own sake.
— from Her Benny: A Story of Street Life by Silas K. (Silas Kitto) Hocking