I am seventy years old, never drank, never had bad habits, always attended church.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

The scriptures aver that man requires a million years of normal, diseaseless evolution to perfect his human brain sufficiently to express cosmic consciousness.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

My dear sister, you are always so very clever, and contrived it all so charmingly that, just underneath your congratulations in Italian, followed M. Martini's compliments in the same style of penmanship, so that I could not possibly find you out; nor did I do so, and I immediately said to papa, "Oh!
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

‘Are those of your own name dear to you?’ said the man emphatically.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Whether your Grace be worthy, yea or no, Dispute not that; York is the worthier.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

You are nearly twenty years old now, dear, and I can't be with you constantly to find whether you are doing the sensible thing.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

Think, Hector leads you on; Nor dread the vaunts of Peleus' haughty son.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Yes or no?” “D’you see, Pyotr Stepanovitch, you’ve been deceiving me from the first, and so you’ve been a regular scoundrel to me.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

No, in despite of sense and secrecy, Unpeg the basket on the house’s top, Let the birds fly, and like the famous ape, To try conclusions, in the basket creep And break your own neck down.
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

The first is a conversation between Socrates and Lysis, who, like Charmides, is an Athenian youth of noble descent and of great beauty, goodness, and intelligence: this is carried on in the absence of Menexenus, who is called away to take part in a sacrifice.
— from Lysis by Plato

Yes or no, did you say that about Madam de Bonnivet?”
— from The Blue Duchess by Paul Bourget

But by her side there stands a youth of note— Don Carlos named—her father too is nigh.
— from Iberia Won; A poem descriptive of the Peninsular War With impressions from recent visits to the battle-grounds, and copious historical and illustrative notes by T. M. (Terence McMahon) Hughes

Of course, we young ones never doubted for a moment that they were wholly malignant and in the wrong; we were as sure as we were of night and day that our father and mother could not possibly make mistakes.
— from The Retrospect by Ada Cambridge

The young one, no doubt aware of some danger, had drawn itself into its smallest bulk, and was clewed up behind her.
— from Popular Adventure Tales by Mayne Reid

But aside from the portions of President Kennedy's head which you have already testified about, you observed nothing detectable as being bullet fragments or bullets?
— from Warren Commission (02 of 26): Hearings Vol. II (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

As she answers, Yes, or No, Darling!
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

‘I accuse you of nothing, darling papa, but of being perhaps just a little unjust to me.’
— from Eve: A Novel by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould