A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEHe should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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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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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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