The opinions of men are as many and as different as their persons; the greatest diligence and most prudent conduct can never please them all.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The Distinguished Service Order, the Imperial Service Order, and the Order of Merit are each of but one class only, none of them conferring the dignity of knighthood.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Judicial investigations even in the hands of the people had been attended with disastrous public results, and there was no desire on the part of justice to open the case and deal with an abstract principle when there was no opportunity of making an individual example.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

It is narrated that in the eighteen-seventies an old lady, a very devout Methodist, moved from Colchester to a house in the neighborhood of the City Road, in London, where, mistaking the Hall of Science for a chapel, she sat at the feet of Charles Bradlaugh for many years, entranced by his eloquence, without questioning his orthodoxy or moulting a feather of her faith.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

“I remember once calling you 'George,' in one of my amiable fits, about ten years ago.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

He might undertake the office of mediator, and plead the cause of the penitent slave with the offended master.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Doubtless in happier days he was a close and constant observer of men and manners, noting his results in those tables which he afterwards snatched from his breast to make in wild irony his last note of all, that one may smile and smile and be a villain.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

they who dwell on Olympus made a second generation which was of silver and less noble by far.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

Perhaps an innate sense of this crowning weakness made him lend a more ready ear to the suggestions of other minds; at any rate, Mrs. Tiptop soon had him under her easy control, through that psychological law by which superior intellect ever governs its inferior.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol XXXIII, No. 6, December 1848 by Various

One day two men were chaffing each other in one of the hotel lobbies, and the conversation turning upon what this house held, one of them wagered that he knew of something I could not fish out of my attic, and when the other asked what, he said an aeroplane—Why he didn't say a locomotive, I don't know; but he said an aeroplane, and the other, taking him up, they came here together and put me the question straight.
— from Dark Hollow by Anna Katharine Green

"You have heard from him," said Jake, in the tone of one making a casual statement.
— from The Hundredth Chance by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

I felt a desire to get away from the gloom of the woods, and climbed the bank to where I could look out once more across the waters.
— from Beyond the Frontier: A Romance of Early Days in the Middle West by Randall Parrish

If we are to shut out of our minds all the ideas of Christianity which are extraneous to the literal statements of the New Testament, to take the attitude of learners searching after truth, and to get from the naked text without other interpreter than itself the sense that is in it, we have a difficult task of doubtful issue before us.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

If you never speak of the larger problems of community welfare, or of social needs, or of moral advance in the home, where Robert has a chance to hear you, he can get suggestions toward such ideals only after he has read enough to become acquainted with these problems and the corresponding lines of service for himself.
— from Your Child: Today and Tomorrow Some Problems for Parents Concerning Punishment, Reasoning, Lies, Ideals and Ambitions, Fear, Work and Play, Imagination, Social Activities, Obedience, Adolescence, Will, Heredity by Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg

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— from Experiments on the Spoilage of Tomato Ketchup by A. W. (Arvill Wayne) Bitting

Areolets, one or more, above the stigma .
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 4 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby