'Really I think most of us do,' returned R. W. 'But not to the dreadful extent that I do, Pa.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

No doubt similar structures, adapted for the same purpose, have often been independently acquired through variation and natural selection by distinct species; but this view will not explain close similarity between distinct species in a multitude of unimportant details.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Nil me officit unquam, / Ditior hic, aut est quia doctior; est locus uni / Cuique suus —It never the least annoys me that another is richer or more learned than I; every one has his own place assigned him.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

For his sake, I felt that I ought not to link his fate with my own unhappy destiny.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

Men of understanding do yet, to this day, condemn the custom of the kings of Persia to give their lieutenants and agents so little rein, that, upon the least arising difficulties, they must fain have recourse to their further commands; this delay, in so vast an extent of dominion, having often very much prejudiced their affairs; and Crassus, writing to a man whose profession it was best to understand those things, and pre-acquainting him to what use this mast was designed, did he not seem to consult his advice, and in a manner invite him to interpose his better judgment? H2 anchor CHAPTER XVII——OF FEAR “Obstupui, steteruntque comae et vox faucibus haesit.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Amy's conscience preached her a little sermon from that text, then and there; and she did what many of us do not always do,—took the sermon to heart, and straightway put it in practice.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

It is a quæsitum of a perfectly definite kind,—we can always tell whether the actual machines offered us do or do not agree with what we mean by it.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The men of Ulster disliked him, and they petitioned Mananna’n to bring Mongan back, but Mananna’n would not do this until the boy was sixteen years of age and well reared in the wisdom of the Land of Promise.
— from Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens

“Most of us do that,” answered the parson; “but what shall I say to his daughter?” “Leave her to me.
— from Alice Lorraine: A Tale of the South Downs by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Something or other in us, either real rightmindedness, or humbug, or hypocrisy, would have obliged us to mix more censure with our liking than most of us do in the case as it stands.
— from Essays in Literature and History by James Anthony Froude

After the death of I. O. Brother R. C. rested not, but as soon as he could, called the rest together (and as we suppose) then his grave was made although hitherto we (who were the latest) did not know when our loving father R. C. died, and had no more but the bare names of the beginners, and all their successors to us; yet there came into our memory a secret which through dark and hidden words, and speeches of the 100 years, brother A. the successor of D. (who was one of the last and second row and succession, and had lived amongst many of us) did impart unto us of the third row and succession; otherwise we must confess, that after the death of the said A. none of us had in any manner known anything of Brother R. C., and of his first fellow brethren, than that which was extant of them in our Philosophical Bibliotheca, amongst which our Axiomata was held for the chiefest Rota Mundi, for the most artificial, and Protheus the most profitable.
— from Mysteries of the Rosie Cross Or, the History of that Curious Sect of the Middle Ages, Known as the Rosicrucians; with Examples of their Pretensions and Claims as Set Forth in the Writings of Their Leaders and Disciples by Anonymous

He was feeling a warm sense of power, and yet he had his moments of uncertainty, did Mr. 165 Mix, for even with his genius for hypocrisy, he sometimes found it difficult to be a hypocrite on both sides of the same proposition.
— from Rope by Holworthy Hall

me opposite us did the train stop.
— from Kitty's Conquest by Charles King

He was "a man of uncommon downrightness.
— from Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 by George Washington Julian

We are camping over on Lac Corbeau for some time, so if you see more of us do not be surprised.
— from Bob Hunt in Canada by George W. Orton