The community may maintain itself in a state of complete isolation, but more usually there are tracks or roads to the centres of adjacent communities, and a certain drift of travel, a certain trade in non-essential things.
— from An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

But it made such a deep dint on my brain that whisky and sex and French are all mixed up together and the one releases the other."
— from Captivity by Leonora Eyles

So novel are the conditions, so copious the knowledge, that we must undertake the arduous task of reconsidering a great part of the opinions about man and his relations to his fellow-men which have been handed down to us by previous generations who lived in far other conditions and possessed far less information about the world and themselves.
— from The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform by James Harvey Robinson