I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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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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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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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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