But if computer users not only chose their machines and software well but used them well, if they formed users groups rather than trust peripatetic sales reps, if they avoided technobullies and hired consultants carefully, if they trained employees in a nonintimidating way, if they computerized humanely as well as efficiently, if they safeguarded their data security, if they prepared for the future through telecommuting when appropriate, if they showed persistence and sense, enough rewards were there, and they’d find the Silicon Jungle to be not only survivable but friendly.
— from The Silicon Jungle by David H. Rothman

The same cause prevented the monasteries of the East from attaining to the same vitality and energy which distinguished those of the West; therefore, they have always been seen to grow weak with time, without producing any thing great, and capable of preventing social dissolution, of silently preparing and slowly elaborating regeneration for posterity, after the calamities with which it pleased Providence to afflict ancient times.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

"Some people are so extremely righteous!" pleaded Markart, ruefully.
— from Sophy of Kravonia: A Novel by Anthony Hope

We used to try and find a good sheltered place, and sometimes even rolled ourselves up in our blankets, but all the same the wind cut right through us as we sat on the sledges eating our meal.
— from Farthest North, Vol. II Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Fridtjof Nansen

The successive authorities in the Printed Book Department of the British Museum have earned my cordial gratitude by their uniform deference to my somewhat peculiar and somewhat exacting requirements.
— from The Confessions of a Collector by William Carew Hazlitt

From an Indian trade-circular:— "We believe in making a Small Profit and selling Everybody rather than making a Big Profit and selling only a Few."
— from Punch or the London Charivari, October 10, 1920 by Various

An article so profitable, and so easily raised, ought to have engaged the attention of the Proprietors, and induced them to give premiums to such men as should bring to market the greatest quantities of it.
— from An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 by Alexander Hewatt

After thundering forth the most violent threats against the discussion of the subject of slavery, the meeting closed with the following resolution: On the motion of Captain Lynch , " Resolved , That the thanks of this meeting are due to the Reverend gentlemen of the Clergy in this city, who have so promptly, and so effectually, responded to public sentiment, by suspending their SCHOOLS in which the free colored population were taught ; and that this meeting deem it a patriotic action worthy of all praise, and proper to be imitated by other teachers of similar schools throughout the State."
— from Discussion on American Slavery by Robert J. (Robert Jefferson) Breckinridge

There were here and [Pg 16] there strange names of places, strange personages and strange events recorded.
— from Mr. Oseba's Last Discovery by George W. (George William) Bell