We knew not our good fortune until we lost it; and such is the longing we almost all of us have to return to Spain, that most of those who like myself know the language, and there are many who do, come back to it and leave their wives and children forsaken yonder, so great is their love for it; and now I know by experience the meaning of the saying, sweet is the love of one's country.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

2 Must we really,” he asked, “give credit to that oft-repeated assertion that democracy is the kind nurse of genius, and that high literary excellence has 83 flourished with her prime and faded with her decay?
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

Here also belong the enigmatic sadists, whose affectionate strivings know no other goal than to cause their object pain and agony, varying all the way from humiliating suggestions to the harshest physical ill-treatment.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Ere it was noon, and still not satisfy Its over-greedy love,—within an hour A sailor boy, were he but rude enow To land and pluck a garland for his galley’s painted prow, Would almost leave the little meadow bare, For it knows nothing of great pageantry, Only a few narcissi here and there Stand separate in sweet austerity, Dotting the unmown grass with silver stars,
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

KING NENTRES OF GARLOT.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Also there came to that feast King Nentres of Garlot, with seven hundred knights with him.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Either we know nothing of God, not even that he is; or we have a partial knowledge of him, we know that he is, and all which we can logically deduce from this; or we know him exhaustively.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

But we know none other god, therefore we trust that he will not dispise us, nor any of our nation.
— from Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous

It was not surprising that Roland was less keen now on going round there.
— from Roland Whately: A Novel by Alec (Alexander Raban) Waugh

"I know nothing of girls' love affairs and jealousies," he said; "pass that now.
— from The Price of the Prairie: A Story of Kansas by Margaret Hill McCarter

This was in October, while George Hotspur was still declaring that Gilbsy knew nothing of getting up a head of game; and then Lord Alfred promised to come to Humblethwaite at Christmas.
— from Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite by Anthony Trollope

They know nothing of God but his prevailing name; and the Bible's light is hid from them as completely as if its pages were inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphics.
— from The White Slaves of England by John C. Cobden

“I know nothing of General Pollock,” then said Saleh Mahomed, “but if you three gentlemen will swear by your Saviour to make good to me what Syud Moorteza Shah states that he is authorised to offer, I will deliver you over to your own people.”
— from History of the War in Afghanistan, Vol. 3 (of 3) Third Edition by Kaye, John William, Sir

Now I knew nothing of gymnastics.
— from Reminiscences of Confederate Service, 1861-1865 by Francis Warrington Dawson

Oh, no, he knows nothing of Greek!”
— from Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. During the Last Twenty Years of His Life by Hester Lynch Piozzi