Good Mistress Page, for that I love your daughter In such a righteous fashion as I do, Perforce, against all checks, rebukes, and manners, I must advance the colours of my love, And not retire.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Let it alone a little; the general order of things that takes care of fleas and moles, also takes care of men, if they will have the same patience that fleas and moles have, to leave it to itself.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The bitterness of Madeleine Vivet and Amelie Camusot de Marville, and the covetousness of Madame Cibot, the door-keeper, and Fraisier, Magus, Poulain and Remonencq were perhaps the indirect causes of the case of hepatitis of which Pons died (in April, 1845), appointing Schmucke his residuary legatee before Maitre Leopold Hannequin, who had been hastily summoned by Heloise Brisetout.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Three years younger than she was, it seemed to me that she could not love me with any idea of mischief, and the consciousness of my own vicious excitement put me out of temper with myself.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I, Div. III, 33 – 38 ; villages of, 35 , 36 ; appearance of, 36 ; customs of, 37 , 38 ; Northern Massim, 78 – 80 Mauss, M., and the concept of mana , 514 Megwa (magic) 424 .
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

There is no doubt that common sense regards tables and chairs and the sun and moon and material objects generally as something radically different from minds and the contents of minds, and as having an existence which might continue if minds ceased.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Keeping to my own room, I had no recreation but music and the care of my birds.
— from The Memoirs of Maria Stella (Lady Newborough) by Ungern-Sternberg, Maria Stella Petronilla, Baroness

"In the autumn after my darling's birth, Paul and his sister came for me one night, and took me away from the pavilion by the water to a deserted farmhouse, where there was a woman to wait upon me and take care of me.
— from John Marchmont's Legacy, Volumes 1-3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

I knew the living movement under me, and the companionship of men, but all dimly, for at heart I was alone, grappling with the realization of a new world.
— from Greenmantle by John Buchan

My friends wanted to take it up and make a test case of me.
— from One of Ours by Willa Cather

Now, I’ve been thinking it over in this forest glade [indicating the woods of Arcady on the scene setting], and I’ve decided to work them in with something about morals and the caprices of memory.
— from Mark Twain's Speeches by Mark Twain

Still I simply come upon him, and find his existence given to me; and the climax of my practical union with what is given, forms at the same time the climax of my perception that as a numerical fact of existence I am something radically other than the Divinity with whose effulgence I am filled.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

"There is no doubt," said Henri Lichtenberger, who sat by me at the concert, "our music is beginning to bore the Germans."
— from Musicians of To-Day by Romain Rolland

My black and bleeding hands prevent my dressing myself and taking care of my outer appearance.
— from The Inferno by August Strindberg

Together they ate up Mary’s biscuits and cake and talked about Beatrice’s remodelling the Constantine mansion at the cost of many thousands.
— from The Gorgeous Girl by Nalbro Bartley

What great deeds were rewarded to La Rochederrien by his marquisate, and this captaincy of musquetaires.
— from The Knights of England, France, and Scotland by Henry William Herbert