I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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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.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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