But three or four mile gained to-night is so many saved to-morrow, and if you keep on, I think our best way is to do the same.’
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

But there are two kinds of induction; the one proceeding from contraries, the other from consequents.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

They say also, that there are two kinds of investigation; the one about facts, the other about mere words.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

[346] And we have seen that the Utilitarian, in the case supposed, will reasonably accept Equality as the only mode of distribution that is not arbitrary; and it may be observed that this mode of apportioning the means of happiness is likely to produce more happiness on the whole, not only because men have a disinterested aversion to unreason, but still more because they have an aversion to any kind of inferiority to others (which is much intensified when the inferiority seems unreasonable).
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

His temple at Rome was kept open in time of war and closed in time of peace.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

A young girl, brought up at home, suddenly jumps into a cab in the middle of the street, saying: ‘Good-bye, mother, I married Karlitch, or Ivanitch, the other day!’
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

They told Eilif that they might expect violent treatment from King Olaf if they opposed his orders; but promised Eilif he should not want men.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

There are then two kinds of intellect: the one able to penetrate acutely and deeply into the conclusions of given premises, and this is the precise intellect; the other able to comprehend a great number of premises without confusing them, and this is the mathematical intellect.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

But, nothing for a year or two occurring to induce Mark Elwood to depart from the system under which the business had been conducted, and Arthur's prudent maxims of trade, to which he had been accustomed to defer, remaining fresh in his mind, he naturally kept on in the old routine, which he was the more willing to follow, as by it he found himself clearly on the advance.
— from Gaut Gurley; Or, the Trappers of Umbagog: A Tale of Border Life by Daniel P. (Daniel Pierce) Thompson

There are some stories so dreadful in the immensity of human misery which they reveal—there are some tragedies of which the catastrophe is one of such unmitigated horror, that the reader who has general impressions of what will be the end of the dismal tale, but who is unfamiliar with its particular circumstances, is unable to follow, without some kind of impatience, the opening scenes of the drama.
— from The Romance of Madame Tussaud's by John Theodore Tussaud

In the meantime Mrs. Billickin took a seat, and delivered a kind of Index to, or Abstract of, the general question.
— from The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens

So swiftly and silently had the coup d’état been carried out, that only the conspirators themselves knew of it, those of the dead monarch’s bodyguard who had witnessed the brutal assassination being all safely in prison pending the Grand Vizier’s decision as to their fate.
— from Zoraida: A Romance of the Harem and the Great Sahara by William Le Queux

Still, March had kept on in the old rut, and one day he fell down in it.
— from Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete by William Dean Howells

She thought it would be well to instruct women so thoroughly in their business that they might efficiently impart a knowledge of it to others.
— from The Employments of Women: A Cyclopædia of Woman's Work by Virginia Penny

"The police ought to clear the public thoroughfares, my word!" said he, "They've been blocking up our street for the last eighteen months with the scaffolding of their façade—another man was killed on it the other day.
— from The Ladies' Paradise by Émile Zola

The most accurate description of the gigantic swindle of Lourdes I know of, is that of Zola in his well-known novel....
— from The Freedom of Science by Josef Donat

This was kept open in times of war and closed in times of peace; but such was the belligerent nature of the Romans that the gates were closed but three times in seven hundred years, and then only for a short period.
— from Stories of Old Greece and Rome by Emilie K. (Emilie Kip) Baker