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— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Tra le gambe pendevan le minugia; la corata pareva e 'l tristo sacco che merda fa di quel che si trangugia.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Individuals, classes, nations, have been extremely unlike one another: they have struck out a great variety of paths, each leading to something valuable; and although at every period those who travelled in different paths have been intolerant of one another, and each would have thought it an excellent thing if all the rest could have been compelled to travel his road, their attempts to thwart each other's development have rarely had any permanent success, and each has in time endured to receive the good which the others have offered.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Whatever, therefore, raises the rate of mercantile profit, either lessens the superiority, or increases the inferiority of the profit of improvement: and, in the one case, hinders capital from going to improvement, and in the other draws capital from it; but by discouraging improvement, the monopoly necessarily retards the natural increase of another great original source of revenue, the rent of land.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

These preachers evidently liked to share Master Thomas’s hospitality; for while he starved us , he stuffed them.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

The sixth-form boy is exactly like the rest of his class, exactly like the sixth-form boy of ten years ago, and probably exactly like the sixth-form boy of ten years hence.
— from The Curse of Education by Harold Edward Gorst

Early in the morning the big express for Montreal and all points east leaves the station.
— from Toronto by Gaslight: The Night Hawks of a Great City As Seen by the Reporters of "The Toronto News" by Toronto News

In his mind’s eye he saw himself rehabilitated in the sight of the scoffers, prospering ere long to such an extent that not only would he be able to reclaim Phoebe, but even Nellie might be persuaded to throw herself on his neck and beg for reinstatement in his good graces.
— from What's-His-Name by George Barr McCutcheon

In times of public excitement little things sometimes have a great effect, and are better remembered than more important events.
— from Ireland under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Vol. 3 (of 3), 1660-1690 by Richard Bagwell

Behind The Press stereopticon a telephone jingled, telegraph instruments clicked, men wrote busily at a long table under a row of pendent electric lights that swayed in the draught.
— from Port Argent: A Novel by Arthur Colton

An extensive miscegenation of the races in these cities had given rise to a very intelligent class of slaves and a considerable number of thrifty free persons of color, in whom the best people early learned to show much interest.[1] Of the schools organized for them in the central part of the commonwealth, those about Richmond seemed to be less prosperous.
— from The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War by Carter Godwin Woodson

Consideration of the animal's preflight experience led to speculation concerning the origin of this hypertension.
— from Significant Achievements in Space Bioscience 1958-1964 by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration