“Well, I never got ’em, Sis.” Aunt Polly she turns around slow and severe, and says: “You, Tom!”
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

"The thing at which we laugh," says Aristotle, "is a defect or ugliness which is not great enough to cause suffering or injury.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

'Do not then insist,' she said, 'that what is not fair is of necessity foul, or what is not good evil; or infer that because love is not fair and good he is therefore foul and evil; for he is in a mean between them.'
— from Symposium by Plato

Hate and punish those who introduce strange gods, not only for the sake of the gods, (he who despises them will respect no one,) but because those who introduce new gods engage a multitude of persons in foreign laws and customs.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

IV. "VON GOTTES GNADEN" Prince William is now German Emperor and King of Prussia.
— from William of Germany by Stanley Shaw

An infidel's word is not good enough—not for Talmage.
— from Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote

2. Suidae. —The Pig family, Suidae, differ from the last in their smaller size, in the terminal nostrils and mobile snout, which is not grooved, except faintly as in Babirusa .
— from Mammalia by Frank E. (Frank Evers) Beddard

Rubbish, by the way, is not good eating, but an essayist should not be a gourmet—in the country.
— from The Fiend's Delight by Ambrose Bierce

If my word is not good enough for you, you can think what you damned please!"
— from Murder at Bridge by Anne Austin

"General," he cried, with enthusiasm, "you are as great as the world; but the world is not great enough for you!"
— from Marie Antoinette and Her Son by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

An English Grammar is a book which professes to explain the nature and structure of the English language; and to show, on just authority, what is, and what is not, good English.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown