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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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