We of the great modern democracies must strive unceasingly to make our several countries lands in which a poor man who works hard can live comfortably and honestly, and in which a rich man cannot live dishonestly nor in slothful avoidance of duty; and yet we must judge rich man and poor man alike by a standard which rests on conduct and not on caste, and we must frown with the same stern severity on the mean and vicious envy which hates and would plunder a man because he is well off and on the brutal and selfish arrogance which looks down on and exploits the man with whom life has gone hard.
— from Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt

One road's franchise has already [294] expired and upon it San Francisco is today maintaining the first municipally operated street car line in any metropolitan city of America.
— from The Personality of American Cities by Edward Hungerford

But we can judge whether our gallant navy did its duty in watching the eighteen hundred miles of Southern coast line, if we remember that during the four years of the war the Union blue-jackets captured or destroyed over fifteen hundred blockade runners—more than one a day.
— from The Story of American History for Elementary Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell

This they would not do if I were not master of some charm.” “Lend it me,” said Theodota, “that I may employ it against you, and charm you to come to me.”
— from The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates by Xenophon

[Pg 73] The backing which can be made of some cheap lumber is now put on.
— from Mission Furniture: How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor