I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
ANTHONY TROLLOPESpeeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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When 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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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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.
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