And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe 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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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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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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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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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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