As to health, I since by experience find, on the contrary, that it is better to dine, and that the digestion is better while awake.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

It was indeed an unreasonable request that a law which had been enforced in so many instances should now be broken in the person of its own author, but Perikles's domestic misfortunes, in which he seemed to have paid the penalty for his former haughtiness and pride, touched the hearts of the Athenians so much that they thought his sorrows deserving of their pity, and his request such as he was entitled to make and they to grant in common charity, and they consented to his illegitimate son being enrolled in his own tribe and bearing his own name.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Let not the critic ask how Corporal Trim could come by all this.——I’ve 216 told him it should be explained;—but so he stood before my father, my uncle Toby, and
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Let not the critic ask how Corporal Trim could come by all this.—I've told him it should be explained;—but so he stood before my father, my uncle Toby, and Dr. Slop,—so swayed his body, so contrasted his limbs, and with such an oratorical sweep throughout the whole figure,—a statuary might have modelled from it;—nay, I doubt whether the oldest Fellow of a College,—or the Hebrew Professor himself, could have much mended it.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Add to which, that the religious systems of those times, however ill supported by evidence, had been long established.
— from Evidences of Christianity by William Paley

On July 19, a resolution was adopted by the Second Continental Congress to have the July 4 Declaration engrossed on parchment entitled "The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America" and, upon its completion, to have it signed by each member.
— from Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia by Dorothy Margaret Torpey

The circumstance made such an impression on him, that he immediately suspected Barwick, especially as he had made false statements as to the whereabouts of his wife, and obtained a warrant for his arrest.
— from The Ghost World by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer

that human instincts suppressed become explosives to displace the strata of civilization and change the face of the world?
— from The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 2 by Winston Churchill

The danger is reciprocative, just as, to return to my nautical simile, the peril of the helmsman is shared by each passenger if he by mischance steers upon a submerged rock.
— from The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. by Henry Saint-George

This happened, I said, because every evil concupiscence presents a likeness of itself in some form, which is not perceived by those who are in the concupiscence, but by those who are at a distance: I also said, "To convince you of it, send some from among you into that forest, and do you remain here, and look at them."
— from The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love To Which is Added The Pleasures of Insanity Pertaining To Scortatory Love by Emanuel Swedenborg

"Well," I mused, "there's consolation in knowing that in two hours I shall be either dead or alive."
— from Arms and the Woman by Harold MacGrath