There are poor people!’” Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

En privant partiellement les utilisateurs de la matérialité du monde (spatiale, temporelle, corporelle), le cyberespace permet de nombreuses interactions instantanées et multi-locales.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

CHAPTER XXXII Of self-denial and the casting away all selfishness "My Son, thou canst not possess perfect liberty unless thou altogether deny thyself.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

Phr. prices looking up; le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle[French]; le cout en ote le gout[Fr]; vel prece vel pretio[Lat][obs3]; too high a price to pay, not worth it.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

This period when education is usually finished is just the time to begin; but to explain this new plan properly, let us take up our story where we left it.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Ceux qui peuvent les acheter les achètent, ceux qui ne peuvent pas les utilisent quand même et leur font de la publicité quand le produit est bon.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

The thing never got a chance to die, for every day, at one place or another, possible purchasers looked us over, and, as often as any other way, their comment on the king was something like this: “Here’s a two-dollar-and-a-half chump with a thirty-dollar style.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Now, three months afterwards, local society has had time to rest, has recovered, has got over it, has an opinion of its own, so much so that some people positively look upon Pyotr Stepanovitch as a genius or at least as possessed of “some characteristics of a genius.”
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

These same people, as well as those in the mountains of North Carolina, during the summer past, preferred living upon the roots and sap of trees rather than receive provisions from the United States, and thousands, as I have been informed, had no other food for weeks.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

In passing from the perigee to the apogee the axis will pass over the latitudes intermediate between R and R′ in both hemispheres, neither reaching to the equator E, nor to the pole P. Let us now suppose a meridian of the earth, represented by the line NRS, N being north, and S south, and the surface of the atmosphere by N′S′; XX still representing the axis of the vortex, ordinarily inclined 34° or 35° to the surface.
— from Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence by Thomas Bassnett

PROVISIONS LAID UP FOR A SHORT PERIOD — PROVISIONS LAID UP FOR A LONG PERIOD — ANIMALS WHO CONSTRUCT BARNS —
— from The Industries of Animals by Frédéric Houssay

" With this pleasing picture, let us leave the gardens of Betz.
— from The Spell of the Heart of France: The Towns, Villages and Chateaus about Paris by André Hallays

There is no need to multiply instruments, or get twenty thousand men to do what a hundred picked men can do even better, but it must not be forgotten mat corporate interest here begins to direct the public power less under the regulation of the general will, and that a further inevitable propensity takes away from the laws part of the executive power.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Do we not all know the story of the brown paper parcel lying unopened for years on the publisher's shelf and containing Henry Tilney and all his capes, Catherine Morland and all her romance, and the great John Thorpe himself, uttering those valuable literary criticisms which Lord Macaulay, writing to his little sisters at home, used to quote to them?
— from A Book of Sibyls: Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen by Anne Thackeray Ritchie