The mixer does not blend the various coffees any more surely than a good roaster cylinder will do it, but treats batches of much larger size.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

On such foundations is reared a Theory of Exclusiveness, a feeling that the world progresses by a process of excluding from the benefits of culture the majority of men, so that a gifted minority may blossom.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

His shift over, each man surrendered to a gasping companion the air tank that would revive him.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

The Master said, 'Truly a good question!
— from The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) by Confucius

And, when thou shalt see that thou hast attained to all the knowledge that is to be acquired in that part, return unto me, that I may see thee and give thee my blessing before I die.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

For, first, men seem to attach great value to the ample gratification of bodily appetites and needs: the wealthier part of mankind spend a considerable amount of money and forethought upon the means of satisfying these in a luxurious manner: and though they do not often deliberately sacrifice health to this gratification—common sense condemns that as irrational—still one may say that they are habitually courageous in pressing forward to the very verge of this imprudence.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

"For this I likewise bring thee a handsome bit of money," said Thumbling, and gave his father the kreuzer which he earned on his travels.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

But we have passed out of the stone into the iron age; the engineers have us in hand; and we must submit to a good deal of unloveliness for the sake of utility and cheapness.
— from Rivers of Great Britain. The Thames, from Source to Sea. Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial by Various

Special machinery is required for its manufacture, so that a great increase in the supply is not feasible in a short time.
— from Food Guide for War Service at Home Prepared under the direction of the United States Food Administration in co-operation with the United States Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Education, with a preface by Herbert Hoover by Frances Lucy Swain

The gradual decrease of crime at the West has convinced the most sceptical that a great work can be done among these people.
— from The Wit of Women Fourth Edition by Kate Sanborn

"President of the New Hampshire Medical Society; of the New York County Medical Society; the American Gynæcological Society; the New York Academy of Medicine; the New York Pathological Society; the New York Obstetrical Society; the New York Medical Journal Association, etc., etc., he reaped all the honors.
— from The History of Dartmouth College by Baxter Perry Smith

One cannot help suspecting a personal bearing in the severe description of the hard man—evidently a lawyer—who makes the poor wait before giving them counsel: yet, perhaps, the suspicion is unwarranted, and the letter carried to Misser Lorenzo nothing more searching than a general account of the temptations to which his profession was subject.
— from Letters of Catherine Benincasa by Catherine, of Siena, Saint

The strength of science lies vested in its instruments, for the scientist may say to anyone: Go, procure a number of glasses ground in a certain manner, insert them in a tube, direct that tube toward a certain point in the sky where now nothing appears to your naked eye.
— from The Rosicrucian Mysteries: An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings by Max Heindel

Perhaps, like myself, she thinks a ghost is better company than humans sometimes."
— from Love of Brothers by Katharine Tynan