Out of context lines

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