Have you guys seen any lines that'd be funny out of context from whatever book they're from? Not hilarious or intentionally funny, but things that just give you a small chuckle
Stuff like,
Thus we can say that we owe our reason, like our language, to intercourse with other men.
-Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies
Or,
Much of the carrying−trade of England, even, was then done in Dutch bottoms.
-Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
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