A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
ANTHONY TROLLOPESuch young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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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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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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