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* ''Literature/CountAndCountess'' provides this gem:
--> ''The bailey was exquisitely decorated: I had lights all over the brush and lutenists sitting up on the palisades, I had the best of the sweet soups served there on the clothed table, I had my pageboys, five of them, hoisted up on pikes, and yet I was abandoned by all of my companions, even Istvan!''

* In the FrederickForsyth novel ''Icon'', a man is considered unsuitable to be in line for the Russian throne because he's too old, he has no children (which means no one can come after him), he screws around too much, including the staff, and *gasp* [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous he cheats at Backgammon]].

* From The Bible, 1 Peter 4:15 says, “by no means let any of you suffer as a murderer or thief or evildoer or a troublesome meddler.” So in other words, "Don't kill, don't steal, be good and don't gossip," M'kay?

* In the StephenKing novel ''TheDeadZone'', when Johnny Smith becames known as a clairvoyant, a reporter from ''Inside View'' magazine (a tabloid about supernatural things) comes to him and offers him a contract, while cheerfully admitting that he doesn't believe in any of the things his magazine writes about. Johnny gets quite upset over this:

* In the second ''Esther Diamond'' book by Laura Resnick, ''Dopplegangster'', Esther screams at the BigBad for his various deeds while hitting him, ending with the fact he nearly ''ruined'' her ''audition''. To be fair, she's an actress and that ''was'' pretty important for her.

* In the PGWodehouse novel ''Right Ho, Jeeves'', Bertie mentions a girl who criticized his " manners, morals, intellect, general physique, and method of eating asparagus".

* It is surprising that no one has yet posted the Ur-Example of this trope. "If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." Thomas de Quincey, ''Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts, an Essay''

* In her book, ''Eats, Shoots and Leaves'', Lynne Truss remarks that, if people went about saying "Elizabeth'r Reign," instead of "Elizabeth Her Reign," there would be "...the regrettable result of making people sound a) a bit stupid, b) a bit drunk, or c) a bit from the West Country." (39)

* The ''DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'' short story "Walkin' City Blues" by Joffy Brown has the Doctor describing a FemmeFatale's "glamour implants" to his companion "A subtle combination of exotic pheremones, AI wetware wit-routines, genetically-enlarged pupils, and a spray-on tan."

* In the ''{{Animorphs}}'' book ''Visser'' the charges against the former Visser One are read during her trial, followed by the different forms of death penalty associated with each crime. It ends almost incongruously with "... treason by murder of subordinate Yeerks, which carries a sentence of exile to punishment duty."

* In ''Zen and the Art of Faking It'' San is trying to figure out where mysterious yin-yang posters all around school came from: Maybe his English teacher had put them up to go along with their reading on Daoism. Maybe somebody in another class had put them up as part of a project. Maybe a race of alien beings had sent them as a message of brother hood to all earthlings.

* In Left Behind's ''Armageddon'', the crimes that Chloe Steele has beeen accused of by the Global Community upon her capture is being expelled from her university for making threats against the faculty, aborting two fetuses (and being suspected of killing a third daughter, while naming her son Jesus Savior Williams.

* Juvenal (second century A.D.) uses this now and then in his satires. Most of the time his examples actually escalate (adultery, murder, murder of close relations) but now and then he throws in this trope, as in listing the dangers of living in Rome as "conflagrations, collapsing buildings, poets reciting in the month of August". Which makes this one ''OlderThanFeudalism''.

* From The Bible, 1 Peter 4:15 says, “by no means let any of you suffer as a murderer or thief or evildoer or a troublesome meddler.” So in other words, "Don't kill, don't steal, be good and don't gossip," [[SouthPark m'kay?]]
* Juvenal (second century A.D.) uses this now and then in his satires. Most of the time his examples actually escalate (adultery, murder, murder of close relations) but now and then he throws in this trope, as in listing the dangers of living in Rome as "conflagrations, collapsing buildings, poets reciting in the month of August". Which would make this one ''OlderThanFeudalism''.

* In ''TheWindInTheWillows'', Toad gets the biggest part of a twenty-year jail sentence for [[JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife insulting a policeman]]. Since the book was published in 1908, [[OlderThanRadio this makes it...]]

* One of the sections of ''GulliversTravels'' is titled "A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan."
** Admittedly, at that time Japan was almost completely closed off to foreigners and thus almost as fantastic as said other countries.

* Appears also in {{Candide}}: or, Opptimism. It fits particularly well due to the dry and dispassionate tone of the narrative. After the titular character slays the Jew, who was a joint owner of Cunegonde (Candide's love interest), the Inquisitor, the other joint owner, sees this upon entering.e