When through lack of proper supervision and oversight there is a rumour that you, and consequently I, have made two hundred thousand over the famine fund, will your assistants come to your aid?”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

In my opinion, the best arrangement would be that by which women, whether widows or daughters, should never receive anything beyond the interest for life on property secured by mortgage, and in no case the property itself, or the capital, except where all male descendants fail.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

He has not the first lesson of political society still to acquire.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

I'd like to have Charlie Emmons see her—he's fixed up a lot of people shot to pieces in the war.
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

Concerning Bering's determinations of longitude and latitude, O. Peschel says: " Auf der ganzen Erde gibt es vielleicht keine wichtigere Ortsbestimmung, als die von Petropaulovski, insofern von ihr die mathematischen Längen in der Beringsstrasse abhängen, welche die Erdveste in zwei grosse Inseln trennt.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

I came first upon the smaller manuscripts, among which I, found, jumbled together on the same and on separate scraps of paper, washing-bills, accounts, hotel bills, lists of letters written, first drafts of letters with many erasures, notes on books, theological and mathematical notes, sums, Latin quotations, French and Italian verses, with variants, a long list of classical names which have and have not been ‘francises,’ with reasons for and against; ‘what I must wear at Dresden’; headings without anything to follow, such as: ‘Reflexions on respiration, on the true cause of youth-the crows’; a new method of winning the lottery at Rome; recipes, among which is a long printed list of perfumes sold at Spa; a newspaper cutting, dated Prague, 25th October 1790, on the thirty-seventh balloon ascent of Blanchard; thanks to some ‘noble donor’ for the gift of a dog called ‘Finette’; a passport for ‘Monsieur de Casanova, Venitien, allant d’ici en Hollande, October 13, 1758 (Ce Passeport bon pour quinze jours)’, together with an order for post-horses, gratis, from Paris to Bordeaux and Bayonne.’
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

There were lots of people streaming toward the park, and when I looked toward it, I saw that it was about a hundred times more crowded than it had been when I went to meet Ange.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

In front of a lot of people she suddenly asks: “Is it true that at our Bank my husband bought up a lot of the shares of the Driazhsky-Priazhsky Bank, which have been falling on exchange?
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

What though the mast be now blown overboard, The cable broke, the holding-anchor lost, And half our sailors swallow'd in the flood; Yet lives our pilot still.
— from The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth by William Shakespeare

Each lineage, or phratry so to call it, had a distinct military organization, a peculiar costume and banner, and its head war-chief ( Teuctli ), who was its general military commander.
— from Ancient Society Or, Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery, through Barbarism to Civilization by Lewis Henry Morgan

Debra’s the sort of person who keeps a lot of plans standing by, just in case.
— from Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow

"'As a jedge of diction,' he concloods, 'an' 318 a lover of proper speakin', I'm onreserved in the view that the statements of both ought to be preeserved as spec'mens of English ondeefiled.'
— from Faro Nell and Her Friends: Wolfville Stories by Alfred Henry Lewis

The light of political science and of history are withdrawn: we are walking in darkness: we do not distinctly see whither we are going.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Like other philosophers, she remarked that the world grows worse daily, and, like other parents, that the bairns got out of her guiding, and neglected the old Gipsy regulations which commanded them to respect, in their depredations, the property of their benefactors.
— from A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy Language by Walter Simson