A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI 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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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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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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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 a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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