“You do the work yourself, because, for some extraordinary reason, you love to humiliate me.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

"I know it cannot be," said Edward regretfully; "yet let us each preserve the love which one brave and honourable man may feel for another, even though he be a foe.
— from A Clerk of Oxford, and His Adventures in the Barons' War by Evelyn Everett-Green

March 27, 1926 Bring Together the Hindus and Mohammedans Shoghi Effendi received your letter dated June 11th and was very glad to see the result of the election of the National Spiritual Assembly.
— from Dawn of a New Day by Effendi Shoghi

'Oh no, you won't,' said Edith reassuringly; 'you look the picture of health.'
— from Love at Second Sight by Ada Leverson

"Learn to eat balanced rations right," thunders the Auto-Comrade, laying down the law; "exercise, perspire, breathe, bathe, sleep out of doors, and sleep enough; rule your liver with a rod of iron, don't take drugs or nervines, cure sickness beforehand, keep love in your heart, do an adult's work in the world, have at least as much fun as you ought to have."
— from The Joyful Heart by Robert Haven Schauffler

From your Lordship I received my office; the Government with which you have been connected I have supported to my utmost; and I have the happiness to feel [Pg 330] assured that I shall ever retain your Lordship's kindness and regards till I cease to deserve it.
— from Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 2 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of