For Shakespeare strikes no uncertain note, and raises no doubts to add to the burden of your own.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Nothing is commoner than the remark, that 'So and so is like his father or his uncle'; and an aged person may not unfrequently note a resemblance in a youth to a long-forgotten ancestor, observing that 'Nature sometimes skips a generation.'
— from The Republic by Plato

Omnes sibi famam quaerunt et quovis modo in orbem spargi contendunt, ut novae alicujus rei habeantur auctores.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

When they passed out of the works they had so long and so gallantly defended, between lines of their late antagonists, not a cheer went up, not a remark was made that would give pain.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

The crudest conception of these systems is the one which is most convenient for us, namely, a representation in space.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Nothing is commoner than the remark, that ‘So and so is like his father or his uncle’; and an aged person may not unfrequently note a resemblance in a youth to a long-forgotten ancestor, observing that ‘Nature sometimes skips a generation.’
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

But your number’s up now all right, you b—— swine.”
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

I had understood nothing about Russia before, and had only vague and fantastic memories of it.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The motive power of the galley when in use necessarily and rapidly declined, because human strength could not long maintain such exhausting efforts, and consequently tactical movements could continue but for a limited time; [1] and again, during the galley period offensive weapons were not only of short range, but were almost wholly confined to hand-to-hand encounter.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Though the actual human being is, unfortunately, not always reasonable, it holds that pure reason must be in the long run the dominant force, and that it reveals the laws to which mankind will ultimately conform.
— from Hours in a Library, Volume 2 New Edition, with Additions by Leslie Stephen

For now the rich warm colouring left his soft downless cheeks, even the full lips became pale, and he lifted his long slim hand and thrust it through the clusters of curls that hung over his forehead, as though in some distress of mind; then said, a moment later, looking up now and returning the admiral's glance fearlessly, while speaking very low.
— from Across the Salt Seas: A Romance of the War of Succession by John Bloundelle-Burton

And shall we complain that a development is slow which began with a Soudanese, a Papuan, and gives us now a Ruskin and an Emerson—that a career is tedious which opened, if you please, on Ararat, and has trailed its waxing splendors up to the Free American States—the libraries, the art galleries, the penetrating humanities which characterize the nineteenth century?
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

(N ‘17) Street, G: E. Unpublished notes and reprinted papers.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

The suggestion made by him deals almost entirely with what I have called the development of morality, not with the ethics of evolution; and perhaps it may seem to us now a rather obvious suggestion.
— from Recent Tendencies in Ethics Three Lectures to Clergy Given at Cambridge by W. R. (William Ritchie) Sorley

The dependence of suicide upon nationality and race presents a number of problems of great interest, but of extraordinary difficulty and complexity.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 by Various

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— from Mary, Mary by James Stephens