Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELate hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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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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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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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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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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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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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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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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