Neither you nor I will ever look like this on any man.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

These books were either long, long familiar to me or else had no interest for me, but I had the sound of a sweet, kind voice beside me, so that the meaning of all of them was summed up for me in the one thing—I was not alone.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Der preise glücklich sein, der von / Den Göttern dieser Welt entfernt lebt —Let him count himself happy who lives remote from the gods of this world.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

To speak only of the men, [3] we can see appearing here in society a kind of monster, who elsewhere lies low—a man passionate, clear-sighted and base, all in an equal degree.
— from On Love by Stendhal

He might just as reasonably order a durable suit of clothes,—leather, or guttapercha, or whatever else lasts longest,—so that his great-grandchildren should have the benefit of them, and cut precisely the same figure in the world that he himself does.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

During the same years the following were condemned in consequence of being infected with echinococci:— Lung Liver Lung Liver Lung Liver Lung Liver Lung Liver Lung Liver Oxen 7,266 2,418 5,792 1,938 4,497 1,721 2,563 739 3,284 1,156 2,507 791 Sheep 5,479 2,742 4,595 2,059 4,435 1,669 3,331 1,161 4,561 1,939 11,138 4,437 Pigs 6,523 5,078 5,083 3,735 6,037 4,374 6,785 4,312 7,888 5,398 9,544 9,233
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

If you will not grant me my request you will ere long learn that your harshness has brought me to a miserable and a cruel death.”
— from The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Edition by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

In some respects it was even less luxurious than that of the peasants around them.
— from Wordsworth by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers

A swarthy oysterman, slender, with eyes like live coals, and enormous mustaches, had his stand at the door of the restaurant, offering cockles and shell fish of strong odor that had been half a week perhaps in ascending from the city to the heights of Vomero.
— from Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Perhaps no one will ever live long enough; and perhaps this earth shared out amongst our clashing ambitions by the anxious arrangements of statesmen will come to an end before we attain the felicity of greeting with unanimous applause the perfect fruition of a great State.
— from Notes on Life & Letters by Joseph Conrad

In some respects it was even less luxurious than that of the peasants about them.
— from Home Life of Great Authors by Hattie Tyng Griswold

[147] Similar conditions prevailed along the entire seaboard, from Maine to Georgia; being of course greatest where inland navigation with wide entrances, like Long Island Sound, had given particular development to the coasting trade, and at the same time afforded to pursuers particular immunity from ordinary dangers of the sea.
— from Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 2 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Brownie rolled the crackers Brownie rolled the crackers for this, while Mildred made the white sauce by the rule she said was so easy it was exactly like learning a bc.
— from The Fun of Cooking: A Story for Girls and Boys by Caroline French Benton

When Earth looked like a huge round ball that did not even seem very near, with a night side that was like a curious black chasm among the stars, the atmosphere of tension inside the ship diminished.
— from The Wailing Asteroid by Murray Leinster