We are indeed, without knowing it, exceedingly ridiculous with our modern "virtues." ...
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Arbuthnot again interrupts (l. 358) to ask why he spares neither the poor nor the great in his satire, and Pope replies that he hates knaves in every rank of life.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

I do not know whether all my readers will see whither this suggested inquiry will lead us; but this I do know, if Emile returns from his travels, begun and continued with this end in view, without a full knowledge of questions of government, public morality, and political philosophy of every kind, we are greatly lacking, he in intelligence and I in judgment.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Indeed," said Don Quixote, "Sancho's moderation and cleanliness in eating might be inscribed and graved on plates of brass, to be kept in eternal remembrance in ages to come.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

A lady well known in Edinburgh related to me a terrible experience she had with the devil.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

"Oh, there may be a few of 'em run, but there's them kind in every regiment, 'specially when they first goes under fire," said the other in a tolerant way.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

A King in Europe requires the support of the legislature to enable him to perform the duties imposed upon him by the Constitution, because those duties are enormous.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

This house is still standing, and kept in excellent repair by its owner and occupant, Mr. Ethan Akin.
— from Sir William Johnson and the Six Nations by William Elliot Griffis

So many times had he taken down and put up that panel of bars that his hands knew from habit every roughness and knot in every rail.
— from Destiny by Charles Neville Buck

At the entrance on the south, within the gate of the city now inhabited, as you pass along, there stands a goodly mosque on the left hand, and over against it a splendid sepulchre, in which are interred the bodies of four kings in exceedingly rich tombs.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr

However, to shew I am not blind to your Merit, I own your Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (though I there find myself contemptibly spoken of) gives me more Delight in the whole, than any one Poem of the kind I ever read.
— from A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope by Colley Cibber

Ancient tomb-paintings show it was known in early Roman times also;—might not the music be as old as the dance,—as old as Phidias anyhow?...
— from The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 1 by Elizabeth Bisland

The threat of invasion would have been removed, and the large army that was kept in England right up to the crisis of March, 1918,[1] would have been free to reenforce the army at the front.
— from A History of Sea Power by William Oliver Stevens

But you must know as much or more than I do about the Isle of Wight air, for you spent several months there with your mother when last in Europe, did you not?" "Yes, we spent a winter and spring at Ventnor," said Ida; "that town, you know, is especially recommended to people with lung troubles, although I could never see that it did poor mamma much good.
— from The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua by Cecilia Pauline Cleveland

I was watching him with keen interest; each report of him gave me greater pleasure.
— from The Unwilling Vestal by Edward Lucas White

The messengers sent to the king in England returned with no promise of help, and on June 24 Philip entered the capital of Normandy.
— from The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216) by George Burton Adams