A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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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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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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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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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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