And man, as degenerate, is too much an hypocrite, and too much a self-flatterer, thus to confess against himself, unless made simple and honest about the thing through the power of conviction upon his heart.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

she exclaimed hotly; “you who were the one to persecute me about him, and tell me all sorts of things about his being shallow and unprincipled, and not to be thought of, you to bring him up against me now.”
— from The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Happily, in the end, the gathering broke up without bloodshed, but when the late Sir Bartle Frere came to Pretoria, some months afterwards, he administered to me a sound and well-deserved lecture on my indiscretion.
— from The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various