Now in this case a common measure has been provided in money, and to this accordingly all things are referred and by this are measured: but in the Friendship of Love the complaint is sometimes from the lover that, though he loves exceedingly, his love is not requited; he having perhaps all the time nothing that can be the object of Friendship: again, oftentimes from the object of love that he who as a suitor promised any and every thing now performs nothing.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

He was not to choose a poor one, and did not want to have a rich one.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

To form such a bond, there must be intermediate orders, and princes, personages and nobility to compose them.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What you were then imagining was not the case, and could never be the case.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The mother never nursed the child, and the parents did [ 145 ] not kill it.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

To this Mr. Smiley added the final staggerer: "Yes, and now the combined ages of the three girls are exactly equal to twice the combined ages of the two boys."
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

und Heathcliff’s noan t’ chap to coom at my whistle—happen he’ll be less hard o’ hearing wi’ ye !’
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Upon his return to Athens he taught those who came to him for instruction in the grove named Academus, near the Cephisus, and thus founded the first great philosophical school, over which he continued to preside until the day of his death.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

Nor let it be thought that some great deviation of structure would be necessary to catch the fancier's eye: he perceives extremely small differences, and it is in human nature to value any novelty, however slight, in one's own possession.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

If, by some convulsion of Nature, the Caspian Sea could have been widened and prolonged eastward for fifteen hundred miles or so, the history of Asia, and, perhaps, of the world, would certainly have been different from that we now peruse.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 4, October 1852 by Various

But now the chance was here I was afraid to take advantage of it.
— from The Heart of a Mystery by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight

Such love as this the Golden Times did know, When all did reap, yet none took care to sow; Such love as this an endless summer makes, And all distaste from frail affection takes.
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

The invention of dramatic recitative near the close of the sixteenth century produced a marked effect on oratorio.
— from How Music Developed A Critical and Explanatory Account of the Growth of Modern Music by W. J. (William James) Henderson

Years roll on in vain; ages themselves are useless here; looking forward, as I do, to an existence that shall endure till time shall be no more; no time can wipe away the remembrance of the bitter anguish that I have endured, the consequence of gaming.
— from St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by William Godwin

"Papa tried to persuade me not to come.
— from The Rustlers of Pecos County by Zane Grey

Transnational Issues ::World Disputes - international: stretching over 250,000 km, the world's 322 international land boundaries separate 194 independent states and 71 dependencies, areas of special sovereignty, and other miscellaneous entities; ethnicity, culture, race, religion, and language have divided states into separate political entities as much as history, physical terrain, political fiat, or conquest, resulting in sometimes arbitrary and imposed boundaries; most maritime states have claimed limits that include territorial seas and exclusive economic zones; overlapping limits due to adjacent or opposite coasts create the potential for 430 bilateral maritime boundaries of which 209 have agreements that include contiguous and non-contiguous segments; boundary, borderland/resource, and territorial disputes vary in intensity from managed or dormant to violent or militarized; undemarcated, indefinite, porous, and unmanaged boundaries tend to encourage illegal cross-border activities, uncontrolled migration, and confrontation; territorial disputes may evolve from historical and/or cultural claims, or they may be brought on by resource competition; ethnic and cultural clashes continue to be responsible for much of the territorial fragmentation and internal displacement of the estimated 6.6 million people and cross-border displacements of 8.6 million refugees around the world as of early 2006; just over one million refugees were repatriated in the same period; other sources of contention include access to water and mineral (especially hydrocarbon) resources, fisheries, and arable land; armed conflict prevails not so much between the uniformed armed forces of independent states as between stateless armed entities that detract from the sustenance and welfare of local populations, leaving the community of nations to cope with resultant refugees, hunger, disease, impoverishment, and environmental degradation Refugees and internally displaced persons: the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimated that in December 2006 there was a global population of 8.8 million registered refugees and as many as 24.5 million IDPs in more than 50 countries; the actual global population of refugees is probably closer to 10 million given the estimated 1.5 million Iraqi refugees displaced throughout the Middle East (2007)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

and, I chancing at the moment to throw back my head, the sweet rolled into my gullet and had gone nigh to choke me.
— from Ben o' Bill's, the Luddite: A Yorkshire Tale by D. F. E. Sykes

They tried to bail it out, but the fishermen knew that nothing they could do would be of any use.
— from The King Nobody Wanted by Norman F. Langford