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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

Anthony Trollope

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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Cloven Cunning Devil Drink Grow Hide Honest Hoof Lose Sober
Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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Enjoyment Flatter Greedy Learn Men Patriotism Pleasant Power Quick Require Themselves
I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Doubt Girl Knew Lover Mind Satisfy Whether Whole
People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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Big Different Exactly Eye Mind Near People Seen Small Thing
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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Kick Man Over Pretty Room Say Seventy Show Unless Word
It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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Angry Done Incline Little Naturally Other Proof Reach Singular Speak Think
If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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Claim Evidence Follies Once Out Point Special Such Wisdom
Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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Dose Poison Small Success Taken
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Hideous Picture Portable Poverty Rural Suburban
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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Always Happy Matter Melancholy Most Novel Pretty Romance Story Tell Very
In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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Biography Day Kept Man Morning National Breakfast Nobody Post Ready Unless
The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Charm Double Down Life Oneself Opponent Pill Pleasure Politician Raise
It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Hard Listen Man Necessity Nothing Say
Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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Bond Giant Little Man Packthread Right Rule
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Best Dress Gentlemen Hols Observe
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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Altogether Burn God Human Luxury Men Oppress Pas Pastor

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