As for me, I am an inveterate opponent of socialism just as I am an inveterate opponent of your own mongrel democracy that is nothing else than pseudo-socialism masquerading under a garb of words that will not stand the test of the dictionary.”
— from Martin Eden by Jack London
[Footnote: The universal spirit of the laws of every country is always to take the part of the strong against the weak, and the part of him who has against him who has not; this defect is inevitable, and there is no exception to it.]
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Outside the pale of society, the solitary, owing nothing to any man, may live as he pleases, but in society either he lives at the cost of others, or he owes them in labour the cost of his keep; there is no exception to this rule.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
One of the pilgrims said, “But there is no evidence that the stones did cry out—Christ said that if the people stopped from shouting Hosannah, the very stones would do it.”
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
But it always happens in such cases that, if one line of attack is anticipated, there is another; and this is no exception to the rule, as will be seen.
— from Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca
Whence it seemed to me, that time is nothing else than protraction; but of what, I know not; and I marvel, if it be not of the mind itself?
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
In this proportion lies the maximum strength of a given number of people; for if there is too much land, it is troublesome to guard and inadequately cultivated, produces more than is needed, and soon gives rise to wars of defence; if there is not enough, the State depends on its neighbours for what it needs over and above, and this soon gives rise to wars of offence.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There is nothing else to be done!”
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
They are clever and know all that hath happened: so there is no end to their raillery.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
and there is no end to his sufferings.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
(2) It cannot be shown to mean, as Lord ( in loco ) supposes, messengers that the churches had sent to John, and that these letters were given to them to be returned by them to the churches; for, ( a ) there is no evidence that any such messenger had been sent to John; ( b ) there is no probability that while he was a banished exile in Patmos such a thing would be permitted; ( c ) the message was not sent by them, it was sent to them—“ Unto the angel of the church in Ephesus write ,” &c. (3)
— from Notes on the New Testament, Explanatory and Practical: Revelation by Albert Barnes
"It breaks our heart to send it away, but there is nothing else to do.
— from At Close Range by Francis Hopkinson Smith
You must realise that where God is seen as "the One," when there is "none else," then He is the Author of all, and not only of the particular line of narrow morality that belongs to the 12 evolving human kind.
— from Theosophy and Life's Deeper Problems Being the Four Convention Lectures Delivered in Bombay at the Fortieth Anniversary of the Theosophical Society, December, 1915 by Annie Besant
The few facts of the history are soon known, but there is no end to the surmises that are afloat among the Iroquois.
— from The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha, the Lily of the Mohawks by Ellen H. (Ellen Hardin) Walworth
But this is not enough: tell me what use I am to make of this liquor, and in what doses I am to administer it.”
— from The Countess of Saint Geran Celebrated Crimes by Alexandre Dumas
Teaching is no easier than learning.
— from Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett
But whether he does refer to them is not easy to determine concerning a man who, very probably, knew these things before they were committed to writing; and, even after [pg 264] they were so, might continue to speak of them, in the same manner he had been wont to do, as things he was well informed of, without appealing to the Scriptures themselves" ("Credibility," pt. II., vol.
— from Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Annie Besant
Such is the direct testimony of Erasmus, and there is no evidence to indicate the collaboration of others.
— from Henry VIII. by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard
2ndly, Because there is no evidence that any person concerned in the transaction knew there were such acts of Congress, as those with which they were charged with conspiring to resist by force and arms, or had any other intention than to protect one another from what they termed kidnappers (by which slang term they probably included not only actual kidnappers, but all masters and owners seeking to recapture their slaves, and the officers and agents assisting therein).
— from The Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials of 1851: An Historical Sketch by W. U. (William Uhler) Hensel
There is no end to the sickening detail of such blunders.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
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