It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAnd though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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Such 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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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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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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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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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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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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