But then I am charged for my room and my meals—and such prices as you never heard of; and then for extras, and drinks—for everything I get, and some I don't.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

And we may further grant to those of her defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets the permission to speak in prose on her behalf: let them show not only that she is pleasant but also useful to States and to human life, and we will listen in a kindly spirit; for if this can be proved we shall surely be the gainers—I mean, if there is a use in poetry as well as a delight?
— from The Republic by Plato

He next sought the love of Marpessa, the daughter of Evenus; but though her father approved his suit, the maiden preferred a youth named Idas, who contrived to carry her off in a winged chariot which he had procured from Poseidon.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

I know young men, and young women, too, who dress very well and seem to take considerable pride in their personal appearance, yet neglect their teeth.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

You needn’t think it an unmanly or quizzical thing to be particular about your nightcap, for I have often heard your poor dear papa, and the Reverend Mr. What’s-his-name, who used to read prayers in that old church with the curious little steeple that the weathercock was blown off the night week before you were born,—I have often heard them say, that the young men at college are u
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Ut possedis —As you now are; as you possess.
— 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.

This was a very agreeable compliment to me, whose greatest pleasure consisted in seeing dramatic performances, and you need not doubt that I often availed myself of my privilege.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

‘There are some relations of Mrs. Kenwigs’s,’ said Mr. Kenwigs, taking a pinch of snuff from the doctor’s box, and then sneezing very hard, for he wasn’t used to it, ‘that might leave their hundred pound apiece to ten people, and yet not go begging when they had done it.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Less joyful are the Laws against Refractory Priests; and yet no less needful!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

As to you, prince, are you not ashamed?—I repeat, are you not ashamed, to mix with such riff-raff?
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is a country situated only a few miles from Europe, with an excellent climate and great agricultural and mineral resources; inhabited, moreover, by a fine, brave race of people, and yet, notwithstanding these advantages, owing partly to the jealousies of its neighbours, its resources remain undeveloped, whilst its government is weak and cruel to a degree.
— from Recollections of a Military Life by Adye, John, Sir

Now Johann Appelmann had a grudge against the newly appointed equerry to his Highness, for the man had swilled his claret, and been foremost in his promises, and yet now had stepped into the place himself, and left Johann in the lurch.
— from Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 by Wilhelm Meinhold

Paris , a young nobleman, kinsman to the prince.
— from Shakespeare's Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

You are at the present time penniless, are you not?”
— from Midnight Webs by George Manville Fenn

, with little less than royal privileges, of remote heathen and barbarous lands, hitherto not actually possessed by any Christian prince; and yet not an acre of American soil had hitherto become the property of the English…..
— from International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 by Various

LIGHT Perhaps; and yet not quite the same thing.
— from The Betrothal A Sequel to the Blue Bird; A Fairy Play in Five Acts and Eleven Scenes by Maurice Maeterlinck

She belonged to a politer age: you never knew it more surely than when she was putting you at your ease with a graciousness that had something of a command in it.
— from A Widow's Tale, and Other Stories by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

You cannot agree on a single point, and you never could.
— from Plays by August Strindberg, First Series by August Strindberg

“If you really wish, but I don’t like to be thanked for what is only a promise as yet.” “Never mind about that.
— from The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted by Katharine Ellis Barrett