I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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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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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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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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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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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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What is there that money will not do?
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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