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— from Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1 by Christopher Marlowe

Then, perhaps, we would be reconciled and drink to our everlasting friendship; but what was most bitter and most humiliating for me was that I knew even then, knew fully and for certain, that I needed nothing of all this really, that I did not really want to crush, to subdue, to attract them, and that I did not care a straw really for the result, even if I did achieve it.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The final proof that our elementary schools have no definite ideal of their own is the fact that they so openly imitate the ideals of the public schools.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The second impression which she made on me, but by far the more vivid of the two, was that of enthusiasm.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

The cities which are here washed by the river are those of Epiphania 3797 and Antiochia 3798 , generally known as Epiphania and Antiochia on the Euphrates; also Zeugma, seventy-two miles distant from Samosata, famous for the passage there across the Euphrates.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

This fanciful, dummy creature, who has been very tenacious of existence in popular and semi-popular economic literature, and whose shadow haunts even the minds of competent anthropologists, blighting their outlook with a preconceived idea, is an imaginary, primitive man, or savage, prompted in all his actions by a rationalistic conception of self-interest, and achieving his aims directly and with the minimum of effort.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Before the invention of the art of printing, the only employment by which a man of letters could make any thing by his talents, was that of a public or private teacher, or by communicating to other people the curious and useful knowledge which he had acquired himself; and this is still surely a more honourable, a more useful, and, in general, even a more profitable employment than that other of writing for a bookseller, to which the art of printing has given occasion.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Those who have had much to do with scholars and savants will readily think of examples of the class of mind I mean.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

There is something so reckless and desperate in the career of man or woman in this country, when they begin to go down, that the only feeling they too often excite is one of loathsomeness and disgust.
— from Winter Sunshine by John Burroughs

[ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA]; but all who have drunk deeply of its soft yet fateful waters—fateful, since they give both life and death—will understand why the old Egyptians worshipped the river, nor will they even in modern days easily dissociate from their minds a feeling of mystic reverence.
— from The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Winston Churchill

With the feeling here described, and with his acute intellectual perception of the abortive character of all intolerant measures, as defeating their own ends, it strikes one as nothing less than ludicrous that he should be charged with desiring to retain this obsolete enactment, standing, as it does, as a merely gratuitous and otherwise inoperative stigma upon the fair reputation of his native state.
— from Sketches and Studies by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I always was of opinion, have ever acted up to it, and never had any reason to repent it, that one Englishman was equal to three Frenchmen.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

'Well, he says why, there,' said Jack, 'and they came the other evening.'
— from The Talking Horse, and Other Tales by F. Anstey

Though of earth only in all the sources of her life and hopes, she was not earthy.
— from Barriers Burned Away by Edward Payson Roe

By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, 011:025 choosing rather to share ill treatment with God's people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time; 011:026 accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.
— from The World English Bible (WEB): Hebrews by Anonymous

But the bottle slipped from his hand and fell, the life of the ogress escaped from it, and she died.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 11 of 12) by James George Frazer

With respect to the county of Sangamon, some more easy means of communication than we now possess, for the purpose of facilitating the task of exporting the surplus products of its fertile soil, and importing necessary articles from abroad, are indispensably necessary.
— from Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters (Selections) by Abraham Lincoln