Then Idomeneus vaunted over him saying, "Othryoneus, there is no one in the world whom I shall admire more than I do you, if you indeed perform what you have promised Priam son of Dardanus in return for his daughter.
— from The Iliad by Homer

[Pg xviii] M Y LORD , in my most humblest wise that my heart can think, I desire you to pardon me that I am so bold to trouble you with my simple and rude writing, esteeming it to proceed from her that is much desirous to know that your grace does well, as I perceive by this bearer that you do, the which I pray God long to continue, as I am most bound to pray; for I do know the great pains and troubles that you have taken for me both day and night is never likely to be recompensed on my part, but alonely
— from The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn; With Notes by King of England Henry VIII

I forgot until you reminded me that you have been forbidden to walk much, but I do trust it did you no harm; did it, Victor darling?
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

“I do not despise toil; I despise you when you speak of toil.”
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Perhaps you think I did you a dirty trick running away as I did, Marija—” “No,” she answered, “I don't blame you.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

For if that I devised you all that is beyond the sea, another man, peradventure, that would pain him and travail his body for to go into those marches for to ensearch those countries, might be blamed by my words in rehearsing many strange things; for he might not say nothing of new, in the which the hearers might have either solace, or disport, or lust, or liking in the hearing.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

You have scarce time To steal from spiritual leisure a brief span To keep your earthly audit; sure, in that I deem you an ill husband, and am glad To have you therein my companion.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Everything looks better today than it did yesterday.
— from Eve's Diary, Complete by Mark Twain

“Some chaps,” said he, after returning me the cane to put back in its place, “would say that this sort of thing pained them more than it does you.
— from Tom, Dick and Harry by Talbot Baines Reed

"You don't think they live on that island, do you?" asked Glennie.
— from Motor Matt in Brazil; or, Under The Amazon by Stanley R. Matthews

But Stefan is not altogether the ignoble dupe you think him.
— from Wanda, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Ouida

That is different, you see.
— from The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies; Or, The Secret of the Lost Claim by Frank Gee Patchin

To win her, and know that she is mine without dishonor, I will undertake impossibilities; if I succeed, or fail, you shall yet acknowledge, proud sir, that I deserved your daughter.'
— from Silent Struggles by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

Don't think that I did you injustice, or that I was vexed because you went away with them.”
— from April Hopes by William Dean Howells

"You've been longer in the yard than I. Do you know them?"
— from What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen