I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPerhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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