‘It’ll save you a good deal of trouble, won’t it?’ said Mr. Pickwick. ‘Oh, I never thought anything of the trouble, sir,’ replied Mrs. Bardell; ‘and, of course, I should take more trouble to please you then, than ever; but it is so kind of you, Mr. Pickwick, to have so much consideration for my loneliness.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Verschoben ist nicht aufgehoben —To put off is not to let off.
— 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.

If you went in not intending to drink, you would be put out in no time, and if you were slow about going, like as not you would get your head split open with a beer bottle in the bargain.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Only a relating principle , opposed in nature to all facts of feeling, an Ego, Soul, or [Pg 500] Subject, is competent, by being present to both of the ideas alike, to hold them together and at the same time to keep them distinct."
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The condition of the operatives is becoming every day more like that of the English; and it cannot be wondered at, since, as far as I have heard or observed, the principal object is, not that mankind may be well and honestly clad, but, unquestionably, that corporations may be enriched.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

The hamlet of Mouys , a dependency of the communes of Prissey, owes its name to a rich Israelite, Moses, who had received that land as an indemnity for money lent to the Count Gerfroy de Mâcon, which the latter had been unable to repay.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

They ask, if possible, to conclude the war upon terms pleasing to both parties or, if not, to effect an exchange of prisoners."
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

I know it's a grit honour for thee to be so looked on—an' who's to be prouder on it nor thy mother?
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Wherever such external or accidental gain through illness is considerable and can find no substitute in fact, you can prophesy that the possibility of influencing neurosis through therapy is very slight.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

They never realised the perils of invasion; nor the fact that they had in their midst the toughest and finest bunch of fighters in the British Army.
— from Private Spud Tamson by R. W. Campbell

Born of an old and distinguished Philadelphia family, so proud of its name that in his instance they had doubled it, the usual bluntness and roughness of the sea were tempered by this gentle birth and breeding, and by frequent attrition with men and women of the politest society of the largest and most important city of the colonies.
— from For Love of Country: A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution by Cyrus Townsend Brady

Therefore let no one find any fault or doubt any single thing I tell them concerning some people who happen just now to be five or six shelves in the world above me, for I have seen a great deal of the very highest society when I cleaned my Earl's pumps and epaulettes, and waited upon him at breakfast; and I know well how those great people talk, not from observation only, but by aid of my own fellow-feeling for them, which, perhaps, owes its power of insight not to my own sagacity only, but to my ancestors' lofty positions, as poets to royal families.
— from The Maid of Sker by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

The land of this country, at least that part of it near the sea, is very low, so that I came upon it ere
— from The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe

Creuzer thought that it was very easy to show that most of the Theogonies were intimately connected with religious calendars, and were related to the Zodiac as to their prime origin; if not to the Zodiac known to us now, then to something very analogous with it.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

In Calcutta, Mr. J. Scott, of the Botanic Gardens, was so kind as to observe the many races of men to be seen there, as well as in some other parts of India, namely, two races of Sikhim, the Bhoteas, Hindoos, Burmese, and Chinese, most of which races have very little hair on the face; and he always found that when there was any difference in colour between the hair of the head and the beard, the latter was invariably lighter.
— from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin

There are great engineering projects that could be carried on, thereby developing many of our now latent resources; there is an immense amount of road-building that could be projected in many parts of, if not throughout the entire country; there are great irrigation projects that could be carried on in the far West and Southwest, reclaiming millions upon millions of acres of what are now unproductive desert lands; all these could be carried on and made even to pay, keeping busy a large number of men for half a dozen years to come.
— from The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit by Ralph Waldo Trine

But this pretended object is not the real one, and our present question is only as to the latter; therefore, we must to the above three objects of the offensive further add a fourth, which is to lead the enemy to make a false conclusion.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

When these materials of interest were not so abundant; when days and weeks elapsed between the publication of important news, the vehicles of this evanescent but much-desired commodity were kept alive by the individual talent and information of editors.
— from The Collector Essays on Books, Newspapers, Pictures, Inns, Authors, Doctors, Holidays, Actors, Preachers by Henry T. (Henry Theodore) Tuckerman

Go through the places of business if possible, or if not take a stand near the door, and if your lunch is tastefully arranged, it will find many buyers.
— from One Thousand Ways to Make Money by Page Fox