Returning to our subject, I must state that the use of spies has been neglected to a remarkable degree in many modern armies.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Then again every man of modesty and propriety would avoid drunkenness, for anger is next door neighbour to madness as some think, 550 but drunkenness lives in the same house: or rather drunkenness is madness, more short-lived indeed, but more potent also through volition, for it is self-chosen.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

“To prove the falsity of these rumours, doctor, I may mention, as a secret, that I am moving to Kislovodsk to-morrow”...
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

“I have no real doubt in my mind as to her sincerity.”
— from Robin Linnet by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

This belief remained dominant in many minds, in spite of all that philosophers and naturalists said in regard to the forms and life of organic structures.
— from Superstition in Medicine by Hugo Magnus

And began at the knights, the which vpon holy Rood day in May made their musters, before the Commissioners ordained by the sayd lord in places deputed to each of them called Aalberge.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Richard Hakluyt

I'd rather do it myself, Mother.
— from Motion Pictures 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

I felt rather disturbed in my mind, for among these objects of art were two or three very rare and beautiful things, which I knew must have cost an exorbitant price.
— from My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt

To achieve the end in view I would have spent my remaining days in motley, making sport for grooms and kitchen wenches.
— from The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro by Rafael Sabatini

Perhaps it had been better to have interrogated Virginia before taking the step I now took, and so I should have done had I not been rather disturbed in my mind, first, by my own pleasure at seeing her again— which I now considered to have been disloyal to Aurelia—and next, by Scipione's account of her state of heart.
— from The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Maurice Hewlett