I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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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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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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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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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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