Ut nunquam inducant animum cantare rogati, / Injussi nunquam desistant —This is a general fault of all singers, that among their friends they never make up their minds to sing, however pressed; but when no one asks them, they will never leave 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.

The reason is not difficult to find.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

“I am going to my room, mademoiselle, and I will come back when you send for me; my room is next door to your own.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The result is not death to the unsuccessful competitor, but few or no offspring.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

This depends, not on a struggle for existence, but on a struggle between the males for possession of the females; the result is not death to the unsuccessful competitor, but few or no offspring.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Messrs. Longman have this month given a judicious and agreeable variety to The Traveller's Library by substituting for one of Mr. Macaulay's brilliant political biographies a volume of travels; and in selecting Mr. Laing's Journal of a Residence in Norway during the Years 1834, 1835, and 1836 (which is completed in Two Parts), they have shown excellent discretion.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 97, September 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

But the reader must remark that, in this the second division of our transcendental Critique the discipline of pure reason is not directed to the content, but to the method of the cognition of pure reason.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

But when any sorrow of our own happens to us, then you may observe that we pride ourselves on the opposite quality—we would fain be quiet and patient; this is the manly part, E and the other which delighted us in the recitation is now deemed to be the part of a woman.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

But when any sorrow of our own happens to us, then you may observe that we pride ourselves on the opposite quality—we would fain be quiet and patient; this is the manly part, and the other which delighted us in the recitation is now deemed to be the part of a woman.
— from The Republic by Plato

America has from the beginning warmly appreciated the recognition by France, Spain, etc., of our struggling republic in 1778, and leading Chinese ministers of state have told me that China would have the same feeling if recognition is not delayed till China is strong enough not to care so much as now.
— from China Revolutionized by John Stuart Thomson

I do not presume to have an over-confidence in what I have done; on the contrary, as a female, as a stranger (but only in birth, as I feel that this is my country by the duties I fulfil, and the support I receive), I naturally desire to have a candid opinion from authorities competent to give one.
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria

Of the other pieces the Rook is no doubt the strongest for he is sufficient to force a mate in conjunction with his own King, while Bishop or Knight cannot do so.
— from Chess and Checkers : the Way to Mastership by Edward Lasker

The result is not difficult to deduce.
— from How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer

Respectabilities and shams have a fatal facility for living on the community anyhow, and there is no more reason in not doing these things on their account than there would be in burning a house down to get rid of cockroaches and rats.
— from Mankind in the Making by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

But dear Cinderella r is not doomed to mourn in dust and ashes for ever.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various

I did not wish to delay my journey, and although my preparations were complete for going through Russia, I nevertheless decided to abandon that plan and go to India, with a view to penetrating over the Himahlya into Tibet.
— from In the Forbidden Land An account of a journey in Tibet, capture by the Tibetan authorities, imprisonment, torture and ultimate release by Arnold Henry Savage Landor

I was never afraid of Lem Gildy, and when I saw him following me along the road I never dreamed that he would molest me."
— from The Motor Girls by Margaret Penrose