"If all those who love one another were to marry," said Don Quixote, "it would deprive parents of the right to choose, and marry their children to the proper person and at the proper time; and if it was left to daughters to choose husbands as they pleased, one would be for choosing her father's servant, and another, some one she has seen passing in the street and fancies gallant and dashing, though he may be a drunken bully; for love and fancy easily blind the eyes of the judgment, so much wanted in choosing one's way of life; and the matrimonial choice is very liable to error, and it needs great caution and the special favour of heaven to make it a good one.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

For several centuries this process of assimilation has been going on [142] in many parts of the earth, and is now going on at an accelerated pace, resulting in larger conceptions of nationality and larger political or governmental units.
— from The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 by Various

Casting aside the Erastian theory, he had claimed its right to exist, and if necessary, govern itself, separate from the State.
— from Hurrell Froude: Memoranda and Comments by Louise Imogen Guiney

I must have been about ten or eleven when I went through this experience, and I never got rid of the feeling of a certain unreality in the whole transaction, but on the other hand I had the same feeling of unreality in the system of theology which led to it.
— from The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I by William James Stillman

At the most this demand might be taken to suggest the recommendation of a popular philosophy, for the use of professional historians; but this too exists and is natural good sense.
— from Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept by Benedetto Croce

The Tirpitzes, the Falkehhayns, the Reventlows, the Bernhardis and the Crown Princes, lurking Mephistopheles-like in the background, leaned over Bethmann Hollweg and the Kaiser on July 28, while Sir Edward Grey's proposal was undergoing final consideration, and whispered in their ear an imperious "No!" Germany, as "evidence of good faith," the Wilhelmstrasse told us next day, was continuing to exercise friendly pressure "in the direction of peace" at both St. Petersburg and Vienna.
— from The Assault: Germany Before the Outbreak and England in War-Time by Frederic William Wile

Are you so critical that even Armorel is not good enough for you?' 'Not my style,' he said shortly.
— from Armorel of Lyonesse: A Romance of To-day by Walter Besant

“If all those who love one another were to marry,” said Don Quixote, “it would deprive parents of the right to choose, and marry their children to the proper person and at the proper time; and if it was left to daughters to choose husbands as they pleased, one would be for choosing her father’s servant, and another, some one she has seen passing in the street and fancies gallant and dashing, though he may be a drunken bully; for love and fancy easily blind the eyes of the judgment, so much wanted in choosing one’s way of life; and the matrimonial choice is very liable to error, and it needs great caution and the special favour of heaven to make it a good one.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

And with that I gives a chuckle, as ye may suppose, an' no mistake; for thinks I, so far as consarns myself, this here can't last long, blow me, for sooner or later I'll find some un to speak to, even an I nivver gets rid o' this here outer darkness—be blowed if I han't got a white mind, any ways,
— from The Green Hand: Adventures of a Naval Lieutenant by George Cupples

We are in some danger of becoming petty in our study of pettiness; there is a terrible Circean law in the background that if the soul stoops too ostentatiously to examine anything it never gets up again.
— from The Defendant by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Casting aside the Erastian theory, he had claimed its right to exist, and if necessary, govern itself, separate from the state.
— from The Oxford Movement; Twelve Years, 1833-1845 by R. W. (Richard William) Church