And there'll be wealthy young Richard, Dame Fortune should hing by the neck, For prodigal, thriftless bestowing— His merit had won him respect.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
Wear your ring, dear, and do your best.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
"I would speak more politely if I were you," replied Don Quixote; "is it the way of this country to address knights-errant in that style, you booby?"
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
And then you think they are enviable, whereas you regard Diogenes as contemptible and disgusting, and you do not perceive that those shell-fish are flesh just as much as what he ate?
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian
"And would you rather die, than obey your father?" "Siddhartha has always obeyed his father.
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Before the vacation ends, I think I shall pay you a call, and see what you really do employ yourself in.'
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
What you really did was drop it into the large pocket and bring out the doctored glass.
— from The High Hander by William Oliver Turner
The rocks that wreck your reeling deck Will leave me naught to save!
— from The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 05 Poems of the Class of '29 (1851-1889) by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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