Qui mala non fert, ipse sibi testis est per impatientiam quod bonus non est , he that cannot bear injuries, witnesseth against himself that he is no good man, as Gregory holds.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Master Hugh closed his reproofs, by telling me that, hereafter, I need give myself no uneasiness about getting work; that he “would, himself, see to getting work for me, and enough of it, at that.”
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

The fourth kind of rhetoric is called defence, when a man shows that he has done no wrong, and that he is not guilty of anything out of the way.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

The following list of books more or less known to him is not given as complete:—The Vulgate, beginning with St. Jerome’s Prologue; Aristotle, through the Latin translation then in vogue; Averroes, etc.; Thomas Aquinas and the other Schoolmen; much of the Civil and Canon law; Boethius; Homer only in scraps, through Aristotle, etc.; Virgil, Cicero in part, Livy, Horace, Ovid, Terence, Lucan, and Statius; the works of Brunetto Latini; the poetical literature of Provence, France, and Italy, including the Arthurian Romances—the favourite reading of the Italian nobles, and the tales of Charlemagne and his Peers—equally in favour with the common people.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Ut effeminatae ridendaeque ignaviae loco habeatur, nolle inebriari ; 'tis now come to that pass that he is no gentleman, a very milk-sop, a clown, of no bringing up, that will not drink; fit for no company; he is your only gallant that plays it off finest, no disparagement now to stagger in the streets, reel, rave, &c., but much to his fame and renown; as in like case Epidicus told Thesprio his fellow-servant, in the [1417] Poet.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Reason can only prevent error, that is, a judgment on insufficient grounds, by opposing to it a truth; as for example, the abstract knowledge that the cause of the weaker light of the moon and the stars at the horizon is not greater distance, but the denser atmosphere; but in all the cases we have referred to, the illusion remains in spite of every abstract explanation.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Drunk and foul-mouthed, ready to cut the throat of a defenceless stranger at the toss of a cent, fresh from beating his decent mother black and blue to get money for rum, [20] he will resent as an intolerable insult the imputation that he is “no gentleman.”
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

but I must take this opportunity of informing Mr. Gunter that he is no gentleman.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

When Eteoneus, that noble young Greek, was so generally lamented by his friends, Pindarus the poet feigns some god saying, Silete homines, non enim miser est , &c. be quiet good folks, this young man is not so miserable as you think; he is neither gone to Styx nor Acheron, sed gloriosus et senii expers heros , he lives for ever in the Elysian fields.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

“I say,” he whispered, “poor old Melk is so upset by what you said that he is not going to have tea with us.”
— from The Crystal Hunters: A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps by George Manville Fenn

If, on the contrary, the harvest is not good, the immature leaves are left to grow.
— from Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings

Adultery alone, when committed by the husband, is not ground for a dissolution of marriage; it must be coupled with some additional offence before the wife can obtain her freedom.
— from Marriage, As It Was, As It Is, and As It Should Be: A Plea for Reform by Annie Besant

18 “Yes, that is just it,” cried Nathalie in a pitifully small voice, “and he says that he is not going to wait to be drafted.
— from The Liberty Girl by Rena I. Halsey

But my nephew tells me that he is now going to forswear sack and live cleanly."
— from The Pit Town Coronet: A Family Mystery, Volume 1 (of 3) by C. J. (Charles James) Wills

At another he wanders the country with a face grimy from occasionally mending kettles; and there is no evidence that his clothes are not seedy and torn, and his shoes down at the heel; but by what process of reasoning will they prove that he is no gentleman?
— from The Romany Rye by George Borrow

Their hair is not growing properly, or their ears are not the proper shape, or their ears are too large, or their hands are too rough, or their complexion doesn't match the ties they like to wear, or some equally foolish and nonsensical thing.
— from Quit Your Worrying! by George Wharton James

Though Bryant is always serious, it is worthy of note that he is never gloomy, that he entirely escapes the pessimism or despair which seizes upon most poets in times of trouble.
— from Outlines of English and American Literature An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Moreover, if responsibility depends upon freedom, it is impossible to see how reward and punishment are to be justified upon this standpoint; since the individual can say with [Pg 194] reason that he is not guilty with respect to the whole, but only with respect to a very small part of his act.
— from A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Cora May Williams