But I don't deserve these things; I know I don't.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

84 What greater advantage one could have, according to the standard of popular opinion, than to be a king, I do not know; when, however, I begin to bring the question back to the standard of truth, then I find nothing more disadvantageous for one who has risen [359] to that height by injustice.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘If it were not for them, you well know, I’d demolish you in the twinkling of an eye, and give your body to the fowls of heaven and the lilies of the fields!’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

You know I don’t like to have anyone sitting in the kitchen.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

That upon occasion I may know, I desired to know, his friends I may trust to, he tells me, but that he is not yet in England, but continues this summer in Ireland, my Lord Orrery is his father almost in affection.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

She'd be oncommon kind, I dessay, if she warn't obligated to be it.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

"You know I didn't mean that!"
— from Mildred at Roselands A Sequel to Mildred Keith by Martha Finley

A knowledge of the laws of spirit life would have enabled me to have avoided this mistake; but that knowledge I did not possess.
— from Strange Visitors A series of original papers, embracing philosophy, science, government, religion, poetry, art, fiction, satire, humor, narrative, and prophecy, by the spirits of Irving, Willis, Thackeray, Brontë, Richter, Byron, Humboldt, Hawthorne, Wesley, Browning, and others now dwelling in the spirit world; dictated through a clairvoyant, while in an abnormal or trance state by Henry J. Horn

This feature makes the generator automatic in its action, for as soon as the gas in the gas chamber gets up sufficient pressure, the acid in the gas chamber k is driven slowly back through the acid supply pipe l and up into the acid chamber j , where it is held until gas is used.
— from The Art of Lead Burning A practical treatise explaining the apparatus and processes. by C. H. Fay

“You know I don’t approve of such hours for a girl of your age.”
— from The Clock Strikes Thirteen by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

“But, Kenelm, I don't like to have you over there all by yourself.
— from Thankful's Inheritance by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Thy brother Kabigát is down in Kai-án͠g building a house.
— from Origin Myths among the Mountain Peoples of the Philippines by H. Otley (Henry Otley) Beyer

" "Ay, Mother, you should have been down on your knees thanking heaven fasting—and if the truth were known I dare say you were.
— from Ann and Her Mother by O. Douglas

If any warmer impulse or more powerful feeling give threatening notice of arising, it is kept in due subjection and a wholesome state of coolness, perhaps by its very hopelessness even if returned, perhaps by the fear or the knowledge that it would be ill-received, and that the only passport to the pleasant friendship so delighted in is in this calm and sober platonism.
— from The Girl of the Period, and Other Social Essays, Vol. 1 (of 2) by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

Jemison goes to Gardow.—Her Employment there.—Attention of an old Negro to her safety, &c.—Severe Winter.—Sufferings of the Indians.—Destruction of Game.—Indians' Expedition to the Mohawk.—Capture old John O'Bail, &c.—Other Prisoners taken, &c. For four or five years we sustained no loss in the war, except in the few who had been killed in distant battles; and our tribe, because of the remoteness of its situation, from the enemy, felt secure from an attack.
— from A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison by James E. (James Everett) Seaver