Swann to have done, while we imagine that she cannot ever be ours, it is enough, also, sometimes that she looks on us kindly, as Mme.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

It is the story of the loves of Udayana, king of Vatsa, and of Sāgarikā, an attendant of his queen Vāsavadattā.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

That science is a whole, remains a true principle of inductive as well as of metaphysical philosophy; and the love of universal knowledge is still the characteristic of the philosopher in modern as well as in ancient times.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

The love of universal knowledge that filled his mind, would not allow him to neglect one branch of science, of which neither he nor the world could yet see the absurdity.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

SHIPPING LOSSES OF UNITED KINGDOM AS
— from Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 by Various

The Library of Universal Knowledge complete in 15 octavo volumes, substantially bound in cloth as above described, and THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE 5 years to one subscriber.
— from How to Travel Hints, Advice, and Suggestions to Travelers by Land and Sea all over the Globe. by Thomas Wallace Knox

A lot of us know each other anyway, from other joint projects.
— from Makers by Cory Doctorow

For the Reformation period, the older history of Vieusseux (Library of Useful Knowledge, 1840) is fuller and better, though now superseded as to early times.
— from The Evolution of States by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

It is a library of universal knowledge, and the facts contained in it are different from any other facts now in use.
— from Bill Nye's Red Book New Edition by Bill Nye

History of Astronomy (in the Library of Useful Knowledge), London, 1834.
— from A History of Science — Volume 5 by Edward Huntington Williams

No, sir, the poor in my country don't have to pay taxes for a lot of useless kings and earls and first grooms of the bedchamber and second ladies in waiting, and I don't know what all.
— from The Man from Home by Harry Leon Wilson

And yet, having gone down the road through a long life of usefulness, Kingsley's is the voice of a mature experience which says to every stammerer: "Beware—there are pitfalls ahead!"
— from Stammering, Its Cause and Cure by Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue

Library of Useful Knowledge .
— from The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction Volume 14, No. 391, September 26, 1829 by Various