Then again, the very happy have no need of persons who are profitable, but of pleasant ones they have because they wish to have people to live intimately with; and what is painful they bear for a short time indeed, but continuously no one could support it, nay, not even the Chief Good itself, if it were painful to him individually: and so they look out for pleasant friends: perhaps they ought to require such to be good also; and good moreover to themselves individually, because then they will have all the proper requisites of Friendship.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

I suppose I need not expect to be asked to any doll parties, but, Jane, wouldn’t you–couldn’t you, take me fishing when we come?
— from Chicken Little Jane on the Big John by Lily Munsell Ritchie

"It means, of course, that most of my dearest friends will not be able to come, but I suppose I need not expect that to weigh against your determination," was one of the many arguments she tried, and: "I never dreamed that
— from To Love by Margaret Peterson

[175] I have seen, in Northern New England, the surface of the open ground frozen to the depth of twenty-two inches, in the month of November, when in the forest earth no frost was discoverable; and later in the winter, I have known an exposed sand knoll to remain frozen six feet deep, after the ground in the woods was completely thawed.
— from Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

That we should know whether or not he does so, is not necessary, else the book of Divine revelation had not been completed.
— from The Ordinance of Covenanting by John Cunningham

re, knowing you are so ill, nothing, not even this happy event, can give us any pleasure.
— from Caesar Borgia: A Study of the Renaissance by John Leslie Garner

You know well, my dear beloved, that my soul is not narrow enough to distinguish what is yours from what is mine.
— from Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewuska, afterwards Madame Honoré de Balzac, 1833-1846 by Honoré de Balzac

While the definition of this offense is the designing or accomplishment of the overturning of the government of the state, such intention need not extend to every portion of its territory.
— from Homestead A Complete History of the Struggle of July, 1892, between the Carnegie-Steel Company, Limited, and the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers by Arthur Gordon Burgoyne

The supply is not nearly equal to the demand.
— from Bleeding Armenia: Its history and horrors under the curse of Islam by Augustus Warner Williams