The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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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The 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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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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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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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