There 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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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.
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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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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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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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