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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.

Anthony Trollope

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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 who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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