He is not haunted by the ghosts or tail ends of half-finished tasks, of skipped problems; is not kept awake by a troubled conscience.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

The first fall east of Schaakook (Schagticoke) Patent is now known as Valley Falls, in the town of Pittstown (Pittstown Station).
— from Footprints of the Red Men Indian geographical names in the valley of Hudson's river, the valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware: their location and the probable meaning of some of them. by Edward Manning Ruttenber

Radios: 17,000 (1997) Television broadcast stations: 1 (1997) Televisions: 1,000 (1997) Internet Service Providers (ISPs): NA @Kiribati:Transportation Railways: 0 km Highways: total: 670 km (1996 est.) paved: NA km unpaved: NA km Waterways: small network of canals, totaling 5 km, in Line Islands Ports and harbors: Banaba, Betio, English Harbor, Kanton Merchant marine: total: 1 ship (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,291 GRT/1,295 DWT ships by type: passenger/cargo 1 (1999 est.)
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

[376] This name Drundallon, or Dwndallon, is not very distinct in the MS., and no such place is now known.
— from The Works of John Knox, Volume 1 (of 6) by John Knox

Mr. Lang was minister of the parish of St. Peters, in New Kent County.
— from History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell

But subjectivism, with its freedom, leads inevitably to the loss of the truth; it is scepticism in principle, in fact, if my thoughts are not a counterpart of an objective world, but only a subjectively produced image; not knowledge of an external reality, but only a figment of the imagination, a projection, then I can have no assurance that they are more than an empty dream.
— from The Freedom of Science by Josef Donat

The facts prove that marriage by actual elopement[174] is of rare occurrence; that "marriage" based on such elopement is nearly always adulterous (with another man's wife) and of brief duration—a mere intrigue, in fact; that the guilty couple are severely punished, if not killed outright; and that everything that is possible is done to prevent or frustrate elopements based on individual preference or liking.
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck

She said presently, ‘I never knew a man that was in a battle that liked to speak of it after.
— from The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 5 (of 8) The Celtic Twilight and Stories of Red Hanrahan by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

If city and town garbage is sold to hog feeders the municipal authorities should have control of the sanitary conditions about the feeding yards, as there is great danger from fly breeding in such places if not kept clean.
— from The House Fly and How to Suppress It by F. C. (Fred Corry) Bishopp

The governor of Cilicia in the same period is not known; probably some one left in charge by Pompey.
— from The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Marcus Tullius Cicero