He that knows not, and knows that he knows not, is good.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

‘Yes,’ said Miss Knag, nodding in great triumph; ‘another book, in three volumes post octavo.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

She knew no inexperienced gardener produced that apparently simple approach to a door that has been chosen as frontispiece in more than one book on Colonial architecture.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

122 Scylla the daughter of King Nisus in Grecian legends.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

We have no means of measuring this vast machine, we are unable to calculate its workings; we know neither its guiding principles nor its final purpose; we do not know ourselves, we know neither our nature nor the spirit that moves us; we scarcely know whether man is one or many; we are surrounded by impenetrable mysteries.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men know not in general how much they destroy of their own pleasure, when they break through the respect and tenderness due to our sex, and even to those of it who live only by pleasing them.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

kunsumisiyun n intense grief that wastes away the body.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

—Of this stitch there are three kinds, now in general use.
— from The Ladies' Work-Table Book Containing Clear and Practical Instructions in Plain and Fancy Needlework, Embroidery, Knitting, Netting and Crochet by Anonymous

Patronized and encouraged by the king, nourished in great measure at the expense of the baronage, lay and ecclesiastical, these insidious communities of the people had gradually revealed a character of their own alien to the whole feudal tradition.
— from Town Life in the Fifteenth Century, Volume 2 (of 2) by Alice Stopford Green

On the 3d of September, when I came out to breakfast, Frau W. called out to me from behind the newspaper, with a face all ablaze with triumph and excitement, " Der Kaiser Napoleon ist gefangen .
— from Music-Study in Germany, from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay by Amy Fay

Geographic coordinates: 2 00 S, 77 30 W Map references: South America Area: total: 283,560 sq km note: includes Galapagos Islands water: 6,720 sq km land: 276,840 sq km Area - comparative: slightly smaller than Nevada Land boundaries: total: 2,010 km border countries: Colombia 590 km, Peru 1,420 km Coastline: 2,237 km Maritime claims: continental shelf: claims continental shelf between mainland and Galapagos Islands territorial sea: 200 NM Climate: tropical along coast, becoming cooler inland at higher elevations; tropical in Amazonian jungle lowlands Terrain: coastal plain (costa), inter-Andean central highlands (sierra), and flat to rolling eastern jungle (oriente)
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

“Didn't you?” “Done it kickin' nights, I guess.”
— from A Modern Instance by William Dean Howells

Security from translation by persons not having the key number is greater when the key numbers are used alternately additive and subtractive.
— from Visual Signaling by United States. Army. Signal Corps

[Job D. TAUSINGA]; United Party [Sir Peter KENILOREA] note: in general, Solomon Islands politics is characterized by fluid coalitions Somalia none South Africa African Christian Democratic Party or ACDP [Kenneth MESHOE]; African National Congress or ANC [Jacob ZUMA]; Congress of the People or COPE [Mosiuoa LEKOTA]; Democratic Alliance or DA
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency