Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMany people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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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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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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