“Yet even this way of life is in their estimation happier than groaning over the plough; toiling in the erection of houses; subjecting their own fortunes and those of others to the agitations of alternate hope and fear.”— Tacitus《The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus》
“The reference to their uncle amazed them, and they wondered what the two men in the runabout had in mind to do.”— Edward Stratemeyer《The Rover Boys on the Farm》
“To people of her blood, liberty is everything, and they would set a town on fire to save themselves one day in prison.”— Prosper Mérimée《Carmen》
“Several times, the thought had come to me, that the Things had, at last, left us; but, up to this time, I had refused to entertain the idea, seriously; now, however, I began to feel that there was reason for hope.”— William Hope Hodgson《The House on the Borderland》
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》
“DEAR DICK, At what time of life may a man think himself exempted from the necessity of sacrificing his repose to the punctilios of a contemptible world?”— Tobias Smollett《The Expedition of Humphry Clinker》
