'The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

' Talking of a London life, he said, 'The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Before [341] beginning with that struggle, it may be well to supplement the rough estimate of England's total naval force, given, in lack of more precise information, by the statement of the First Lord of the Admiralty made in the House of Lords in November, 1777, a very few months before the war with France began.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

There are poor people!’” Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The House of Life is now a hundred sonnets—all lyrics being removed.
— from Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Caine, Hall, Sir

The history of Logic is not outside the history of Philosophy, but is an integral part of this history itself.
— from Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept by Benedetto Croce

Where is the heart of life, if not at one's elbow?
— from The Gates of Chance by Van Tassel Sutphen

Again (this was another branch of the correspondence, not more than five heads of departments being concerned), the Company admitted that there was some reasonable doubt as to the duties of express-trains in all crises, and the matter was open to settlement by process of law till an authoritative ruling was obtained—from the House of Lords, if necessary.
— from The Day's Work - Volume 1 by Rudyard Kipling

The {157} men performing them are just workpeople, the relation of whose labour to her own life is not, perhaps, always very clear.
— from The Fruits of Victory A Sequel to The Great Illusion by Norman Angell

This fact, however, really requires no further explanation than that the history of Luke is not intended to be exhaustive.
— from The Literature and History of New Testament Times by J. Gresham (John Gresham) Machen

Between the garden wall and the winding roadway, grew a luxurious grove of date palms which gave to the home of Lazarus its name.
— from The Coming of the King by Bernie Babcock

A chief named Nyamba, who had spoken a few words of English to Grandier, now explained to Umbelini who the prisoner was, and under what circumstances he had been taken, and at his suggestion a Zulu named Nicohlomba, who was known to have once lived in Natal, was brought into the enclosure as an interpreter.
— from The Story of the Zulu Campaign by Edmund Verney Wyatt Edgell

She arranged the cushion to her own liking, if not to his, and when it was done she bent down impulsively and kissed him on the cheek, blushing vividly the while.
— from Lonesome Land by B. M. Bower