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 * 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress:
 * When at the first I took my pen in hand Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should make a little book In such a mode; nay, I had undertook To make another; which, when almost done, Before I was aware, I this begun.
 * Well, so I did; but yet I did not think To shew to all the world my pen and ink In such a mode; I only thought to make I knew not what; nor did I undertake Thereby to please my neighbour: no, not I; I did it my own self to gratify.
 * Now was I in a strait, and did not see Which was the best thing to be done by me: At last I thought, Since you are thus divided, I print it will, and so the case decided.


 * 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:
 * I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me.
 * And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain.
 * If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot — say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance — literally to astonish his son's weak mind.


 * 1952, Frank Bunker Gilbreth, William Roos, Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Belles on Their Toes, Dramatic Publishing (ISBN 9780871298447), page 19:
 * MARTHA, A dance, Rodney! You want me to go to a dance with You! [...] A dinner dance, Rodney? . . . Oh, no, not a dinner dance! . . . Oh, no—not a formal dinner dance, complete with corsages . . . No, no—no, Rodney, you can't get your father's brand new five-passenger, four-door Chandler!