Accordingly, since I had no choice in the matter, I obeyed him, and now I am no longer able to change my character, though indeed I often wish I could, and I blame myself for not granting to all men impunity for all wrong-doing.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

I remember I wandered about the whole day, but did not go into the garden, and never once glanced at the lodge, and in the evening I was the spectator of an amazing occurrence: my father conducted Count Malevsky by the arm through the dining-room into the hall, and, in the presence of a footman, said icily to him: 'A few days ago your excellency was shown the door in our house; and now I am not going to enter into any kind of explanation with you, but I have the honour to announce to you that if you ever visit me again, I shall throw you out of window.
— from The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Over here a nigger is a nigger, and a white man is a white man, and it's the same with the women.' ...
— from The Negro Farmer by Carl Kelsey

He had no theory except of his art; no "ideas" and no "problems"; he did not wish to change anything or to reform anything; but he saw all his people pass by as before a window, and he heard their words.
— from English Literature: Modern by G. H. (George Herbert) Mair

He never lost his appetite— He bigger grew, and bigger; And proved, with every inch of height, A nigger is a nigger.
— from The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Henry Kendall