England begins to think less of the pomp and false glitter of fighting, and more of its moral evils, as the nation realizes that it is the common people who bear the burden and the sorrow and the poverty of war, while the privileged classes reap most of the financial and political rewards.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Presumo de liberal, [43-2] y un pobre Capitán retirado me ha
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

The plutocracy can recruit measurably more respectable janissaries, if only because it can make self-interest less obviously costly to amour propre .
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The rascally prisoners crowded round me to read what I was writing, and when they could not understand it they were impudent enough to ask me to explain it to them.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

With this understanding, off they set, two thousand strong; and there was a heavy downpour of rain, but Xenophon, with his rearguard, began advancing to the visible pass, so that the enemy might fix his attention on this road, and the party creeping round might, as much as possible, elude observation.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

The poor count replied mildly that on the contrary it was he who owed her a year’s wages and had her box in his possession, but that she should not have left him without giving any reason.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I love to weigh, to settle, to gravitate toward that which most strongly and rightfully attracts me—not hang by the beam of the scale and try to weigh less—not suppose a case, but take the case that is; to travel the only path I can, and that on which no power can resist me.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

"In the first place, Clan," reasoned Merry, "we've got to consider that it isn't exactly a cinch that Borrodaile has been here.
— from Frank Merriwell, Junior's, Golden Trail; Or, The Fugitive Professor by Burt L. Standish

If these villages were representative of the people at large, 12·7 per cent, rather more than one-eighth, of the child-bearing women of the Fijians have to contend with this adverse condition, and, as has been said, the provinces that have abnormally low and decreasing birth-rates—Mathuata, Mbua, and Thakaundrove—are the very parts where the "wise women" are noted for their skill as abortionists.
— from The Fijians: A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson

But when, with day, the sweet delusions fly, And all things wake to life and joy but I, As if once more forsaken, I complain, And close my eyes to dream of you again: Then frantic rise, and like some Fury rove Through lonely plains, and through the silent grove; 160 As if the silent grove, and lonely plains, That knew my pleasures, could relieve my pains.
— from The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by Alexander Pope

The cook abused poor Chips right merrily, and called him every name under the sun, and would allow him no virtue, and very little intelligence.
— from The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Richard Clynton

and the cool breeze plays Cheerily round my brow—as hence the gaze Returns to dwell upon the journey'd plain.
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A person cannot recover money paid under a mistake of fact who has received the equivalent for which he bargained, because there is no failure of consideration.
— from Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Albert Sidney Bolles

Samuel O., Baines, Major, Banks, Rev. Mr., Baptist Chapel Baptists in Jamaica, Barbadoes, Barbuda, Barber in Bridgetown, Barclay, Alexander, Esq., Barnard, Samuel, Esq., Barrow, Colonel, Bath, Bazaar, Bell, Dr., Belle Estate, Bell not tolled for colored person, " Belly, 'blige 'em to work," Belmore, Lord, Belvidere Estate, Benevolent institutions of Antigua, Bible Society, Bishop of Barbadoes, Blessings of Abolition, (See Morals , &c.) Blind man, Boiling House, Bookkeepers, Slaver of, "Bornin' Ground," Bourne, Mr. London, Bourne, Mr. S., (of Antigua,) Bourne, Stephen, Esq., (of Jamaica,) Breakfast at Mr. Bourne's, " at Mr. Prescod's, " at Mr. Thorne's, Briant, Mr., Bridgetown, Brown, Colonel, Brown, Thomas C., C., Mr., of Barbadoes, "Cage," Cane cultivated by apprentices on their own ground, Cane-cutting, Cane-holing, Cecil, Mr., Cedar Hall, Chamberlain, R., Esq., Change of opinion in regard to slavery, Chapel erected by apprentices, Character of colored people, Cheesborough, Rev. Mr., Children, care of, (See Free .)
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

Whether they be print-worthy or not, you will know and decide; if so, I shall be back to correct and add another by the time a proof could reach me.
— from Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Charles James Lever