One can drive round the whole of your France in one day, while here when you drive out of the gate—you can see no end to the land, you can ride on and on. . .”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

that your love was great as mine, and that is saying everything; for I feel now, Ellen, that to lose you would kill me."
— from Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Georgiana Fullerton

I enter into no engagement, therefore, to leave you my dominions in any such tranquillity; and, instead of that, I can promise only one thing,—to make your government wiser; which is, that for your instruction my reign shall contribute its just share of follies to those already known, and preserved under the name of history.
— from Adventures in the Moon, and Other Worlds by Russell, John Russell, Earl