Did we get any of that instruction which the ancients used to impart to their youth?
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Had I been able to prolong this inner tranquillity till your life’s end, my work would have been secure, and you would have been as happy as man can be; but, my dear Emile, in vain did I dip you in the waters of Styx, I could not make you everywhere invulnerable; a fresh enemy has appeared, whom you have not yet learnt to conquer, and from whom I cannot save you.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The poor child no more conceived at present the idea that the young squire could ever be her lover than a baker's pretty daughter in the crowd, whom a young emperor distinguishes by an imperial but admiring smile, conceives that she shall be made empress.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

There I think that you are right.
— from The Republic by Plato

Taypa inyung tirmpípar, Type your term papers.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Well, then, I trust that you have no objection to tobacco-smoke, to the mild balsamic odor of the Eastern tobacco.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

During this period, although all things were transacted under the conduct and direction of another, and the stress of the whole, as well as the glory of recovering the province, fell to the general's share, yet they imparted to the young Agricola skill, experience, and incentives; and the passion for military glory entered his soul; a passion ungrateful to the times, 19 in which eminence was unfavorably construed, and a great reputation was no less dangerous than a bad one.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

It was a great thing, I thought, that you should be well spoken of by six thousand human beings; but the greatest thing of all, that you should in no wise discredit the sincerity of your own word.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

The study of letters he should carry to the extent of simple reading and writing, but he need not care for calligraphy and tachygraphy, if his natural gifts do not enable him to acquire them in the three years.
— from Laws by Plato

When it shall please our Lord, I have to travel up to your grandfather; and when you have finished your appointed time on earth, and enjoyed the blessings bestowed here by the Almighty, then I trust that you will ascend to us; and if we then revert to our earthly days, believe me, children, I shall say then as now, 'From Copenhagen to Korsör is indeed a row of pearls .'"
— from The Sand-Hills of Jutland by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

"I take it, then, that you will not return me my property here and now."
— from Bull-dog Drummond: The Adventures of a Demobilised Officer Who Found Peace Dull by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile

There is a tradition among the natives, that this tree is three thousand years old; and there is great reason to believe it, and that it is this amazing tree that Arrian describes when speaking of the gymosophists in his book of Indian affairs.
— from Cultus Arborum: A Descriptive Account of Phallic Tree Worship by Anonymous

But the true help that may be thereto is this, take ye the juice of a herb that men call Selidoyn (Celandine) 123 powder of ginger and of pepper, and put all together thrice in the day within the eye, and let him not claw nor rub it a long while, and that customarily by nine days [Pg 95] until the time that the hound's eyes be whole, and also it is good to put therein of the Sousse 124 of the which men find enough at the apothecary's for the same sickness, and if the nail were so hard grown and so strong that he might not be healed therewith, take a needle and bow it in the middle that it be crooked, and take well and subtly the flesh that is upon the eye with the needle and draw it up on high, and then cut it with a razor, but take good care that the needle touch not the eye.
— from The Master of Game: The Oldest English Book on Hunting by of Norwich Edward

“At one time, I thought that you needed a rival to bring you to your senses, but I venture to say that it will not be necessary.”
— from The Rosery Folk by George Manville Fenn

Mrs. Hapgood snatched the note, read it, and turned impulsively to the young girl before her.
— from Half a Dozen Girls by Anna Chapin Ray

Massan continued, "I put off the duel for a week, hoping that in that time you might discover Odal's secret.
— from The Dueling Machine by Ben Bova

We must be guided by their report, though I think that you will find that your ship is on her way to Borneo, and to the islands thereabout.
— from With the Dyaks of Borneo: A Tale of the Head Hunters by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton