Ergo aeneae fistulae fiunt; quae ut omni corpori ampliori minorique sufficiant, ad mares tres, ad feminas duae medico habendae sunt; ex virilibus maxima decem et quinque digitorum, media duodecim, minima novem, ex muliebribus maior novem, minor sex.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

In divining and keeping silence shall the friend be a master: not everything must thou wish to see.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The reader who has followed with me the fate of the Other Half thus far, may not experience much of a shock at being told that in eight years 135,595 families in New York were registered as asking or receiving charity.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

There is I know not what natural sweetness in hearing one’s self commended; but we are a great deal too fond of it: “Laudari metuam, neque enim mihi cornea fibra est Sed recti finemque extremumque esse recuso Euge tuum, et belle.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Colli y maes, to be vanquished Maes, adv. out, from within Maesa, v. to turn out; to evacuate Maesdir, n. champaign land Maesiad, n. a taking of the field Maesol, a. belonging to the field, champaign Maeth, n. nurture; fosterage Maethu, v. to get nourishmen Maethawd, n. a cherishing Maethdad, n. a foster-father Maethedig, a. nourished: fostered Maethen, n. a pampered one Maethfab, n. a foster-son Maethfam, n. a foster-mother Maethferch, n. a foster-daughter Maethiad, n. a nourishing Maethiannus, a. nutrimental Maethiant, n. nourishment Maethid, n. nurture, feeding Maethidiol, a. nutrimental Maethineb, n. nourishment Maethol, a. nurturing; fostering Maethran, n. a mess company Maethu, v. to nourish, to foster Maethus, a. alimentary, nutritive Maf, n. what is clustering Mafon, n. raspberries Mafonen, n. a raspberry Mafonwydd, n. raspberry bushes Mag, n. act of nursing, nurture Magad, n. a brood; a multitude Magaden, n. a nursling Magawd, n. a nurturing Magdan, n. a combustible, tinder, what supports fire Magddu, n. fountain of blackness Magfa, n. nursery Magi, n. principle of generation Magiad, n. a breeding, a rearing Magiaid, n. worms, grubs Magien, n. a worm, a glow-worm Magiod, n. worms, grubs Magl, n. a snare, a gin, a springe; a webb on the eye Magledigaeth, n. entanglement; meshing Maglen, n. a springe, a gin Magliad, n.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Friday .—Yes, my nation eat mans too; eat all up.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

The non-conventional and deviating people, who are so often productive and inventive, must no longer be sacrificed: it must never again be considered as a disgrace to depart from morality either in actions or thought; many new experiments must be made upon life and society, and the world must be relieved from a huge weight of bad conscience.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It was after Skrebensky had gone that there sprang up between the mistress and the girl that strange awareness, then the unspoken intimacy that sometimes connects two people who may never even make each other's acquaintance.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

On our way to the river the unpleasant reflection occurred to my mind, that possibly the books and the people might be wrong, and that mere courage might not enable me to dispense with acquired skill.
— from Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Eugénie Hamerton

[Sanjaasurengyn OYUN]; Democratic Party or DP [D. DORLIGJAN]; Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party or MPRP [Nambaryn ENKHBAYAR]; Mongolian New Socialist Democratic Party or MNSDP [B. ERDENEBAT]; Mongolian Republican Party or MRP [B. JARGALSAIHAN] note: the MPRP is the ruling party Political pressure groups and leaders: NA International organization participation: ARF (dialogue partner), AsDB, ASEAN (observer), CCC, CP (provisional), EBRD, ESCAP, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, ISO, ITU, NAM, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WToO, WTrO Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Jalbuugiyn CHOINHOR chancery: 2833 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20007 consulate(s) general: New York FAX:
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Her constitution had been fatally injured by the West Indian climate, and just as we had engaged a competent person to look after my neglected education, my constant attendance was needed at my mother’s bedside.
— from Little Novels by Wilkie Collins

"You must never enter my cabin, do you understand?
— from The Dreadnought Boys in Home Waters by John Henry Goldfrap

The Pemigewasset joins the outlet stream of Lake Winnepesaukee at Franklin, and they together form the noble Merrimack, which, in its useful flow to the sea, turns so many New England mill-wheels.
— from America, Volume 5 (of 6) by Joel Cook

Now whereas I doe vnderstand that Sir Himfrey Gilbert his adherents, associates and friends doe meane with a conuenient supply (with as much speede as may be) to maintaine, pursue and follow this intended voyage already in part perfourmed, and (by the assistance of almightie God) to plant themselues and their people in the continent of the hither part of America, betweene the degrees of 30. and 60. of septentrionall latitude: Within which degrees by computation Astronomicall and Cosmographicall are doubtlesse to bee found all things that be necessarie, profitable, or delectable for mans life: The clymate milde and temperate, neyther too hote nor too colde, so that vnder the cope of heauen there is not any where to be found a more conuenient place to plant and inhabite in: which many notable Gentlemen, both [Marginal note: Englishmen, Msster Iohn Hawkins; Sir Francis Drake; M. Willliam Winter; M. Iohn Chester; M. Martin Frobisher; Anhony Parkhurst; William Battes; Iohn Louel; Dauid Ingram. Strangers, French, Iohn Ribault; Iaques Cartier; Andrew Theuet; Monsieur Gourgues: Monsieur Laudonniere.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12 America, Part I by Richard Hakluyt

Mrs. Nellie E. Moulton 8 Madison St., Worcester, Mass.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, January 1885, No. 4 by Chautauqua Institution

You must not expect me to continue our interrupted negotiations.
— from Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

You shall soon perceive that I may not endure much more.
— from Italian Letters, Vols. I and II; Or, The History of the Count de St. Julian by William Godwin