“You’re lucky you never knew her,” Kennon said.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

But that which did a little trouble me was that I did hear her tell her mistress that she would tell her master something before she was aware of her that she would be sorry to have him know; but did it in such a silly, drunken manner, that though it trouble me a little, yet not knowing what to suspect she should know, and not knowing well whether she said it to her mistress or Jane, I did not much think of it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

If you love me as I love you, No knife can cut our love in two.
— from Daily Lesson Plans in English by Caroline Stearns Griffin

“I have been, for twenty long years now, Kate Comstock,” said Margaret Sinton, “but my eyes are open at last.
— from A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

"At last your niece knows what I think you have guessed all along, but so wisely kept to yourself," I said.
— from It Happened in Egypt by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Only, on the downhill path of a lonely, dreamy life, you never know where you are going.
— from A Love Episode by Émile Zola

[1169] 'Otro altar y templo sobre otro cuyo levantaron estos indios en su gentilidad á aquel su rey ó falso Dios Ytzmat-ul , donde pusieron la figura de la mano, que les servia de memoria, y dizen que alli le llevavan los muertos y enfermos, y que alli resucitavan y sanavan, tocandolos la mano; y este era el que está en la parte del puniente; y assi se llama y nombra Kab-ul que quiere dezir mano obradora.'
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

You'd be almost lovable, really, if you would let your natural kindness of heart have full play.
— from Rex Kingdon on Storm Island by Gordon Braddock