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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.

Anthony Trollope

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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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Altogether Change Character Expect Girl Himself Man Married New Put Shall Suit Think Wife Woman
Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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Before Dollar Down Every House Knee Man Morning Night Regular Service Shrine Worship
When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Between Differences Life Such Theory
Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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Character Charity Consider Discuss Given Much Other Spirit Structure
It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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Angry Done Incline Little Naturally Other Proof Reach Singular Speak Think
What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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Book Civil Coffee Cup Earth Ecer Everything Luxurious More
The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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