In the morning I went up to Mr. Crew’s, and at his bedside he gave me direction to go to-morrow with Mr. Edward to Twickenham, and likewise did talk to me concerning things of state; and expressed his mind how just it was that the secluded members should come to sit again.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

" "For shame," replied Minerva, "why, any one else would trust a worse ally than myself, even though that ally were only a mortal and less wise than I am.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

Though unable to give a complete answer to them, we may show—first, that his views arose naturally out of the circumstances of his age; and secondly, we may elicit the truth as well as the error which is contained in them.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

When Quintus Maximus, who had been his deputy in the consulship for the last three months, entered the theatre, and the lictor, according to custom, bid the people take notice who was coming, they all cried out, “He is no consul.”
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Experience abundantly shows that men can govern anything more easily than their tongues, and restrain anything more easily than their appetites; when it comes about that many believe, that we are only free in respect to objects which we moderately desire, because our desire for such can easily be controlled by the thought of something else frequently remembered, but that we are by no means free in respect to what we seek with violent emotion, for our desire cannot then be allayed with the remembrance of anything else.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

Indeed, she never appeared without a numerous train of admirers; and though we had bred her up in that freedom of conversation and intercourse which holds a middle space between the French licence and Spanish restraint, she was now so much exposed to the addresses of promiscuous gallantry, that we found it necessary to retrench the liberty of our house, and behave to our male visitants with great reserve and circumspection, that our honour and peace might run no risk from the youth and inexperience of our daughter.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

They were to be the perfect mothers of perfect children, yet not wholly taken up with the duties of motherhood, which were to be made easy to them as far as possible (compare Republic), but able to share in the perils of war and to be the companions of their husbands.
— from Laws by Plato

And then he asked me three gifts; and one he asked the same day, that was that I would give him meat enough that twelvemonth; and the other two gifts he asked that day a twelvemonth, and that was that he might have the adventure of the damosel Linet, and the third was that Sir Launcelot should make him knight when he desired him.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Hadn’t he three times as many pupils now as when they were first married, earned three times as much, paid for every stick and stone that they possessed, and now had begun to shell out for Adrian’s kindergarten? . . .
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

It may likewise be considered, that exile, considerable fines, or the choice of an easy death, relate more particularly to the rich and the noble; and the persons the most exposed to the avarice or resentment of a provincial magistrate, were thus removed from his obscure persecution to the more august and impartial tribunal of the Praetorian praefect.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

What? interrupted Sir Charles; why the fear of a halter, I suppose: there is nothing more easy than to answer that question.
— from The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella, v. 1-2 by Charlotte Lennox

He hated them the more especially that their admiration was worth having.
— from In Silk Attire: A Novel by William Black

But neither in the one way of life, nor in the other, is any man entitled to take all the sweet and leave all the sour.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 4 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

It must be something very unusual—something that must excite them to a great degree; and Sir Francis began to feel very uneasy.
— from Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest

The routine of the coucher (retiring for the night) was the same as it was in the morning, except that the attendants came in last to receive orders.
— from Memoirs of the Empress Josephine, Vol. 2 of 2 by Madame de (Claire Elisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes) Rémusat

Public libraries typically will assist patrons in obtaining access to all materials except those that are illegal, even if they do not collect those materials in their physical collection.
— from Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Ruling by United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

We may experiment three times a week when operating with a medium in good form, and when the experiments are not likely to last for more than two or three weeks.
— from Metapsychical Phenomena: Methods and Observations by J. (Joseph) Maxwell

The farmers accommodate themselves to circumstances more easily than tradesmen and professional men.
— from Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. by William Cobbett

I furnished my lodgings simply, but rather elegantly, and then devoted all my energies to the adornment of the temple of my worship.
— from The Diamond Lens by Fitz James O'Brien