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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.

Anthony Trollope

Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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Create Defense Dicken Impossible Jerky Praise Rule Style Ungrammatical
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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Atlantic Before Country Cross Fall Invariably Journey Love Over Woman
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.
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Car Down Hour Love Mind Quite Railway Same Travel Woman
Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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Dar Express Man Many Much Proud Reall Regretted Spoken Women Word
No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Country Intensely Location No Other Place
What is there that money will not do?
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Do Money There Will
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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Great Hidden Jeep Nom Golly One Sorrow
He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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Above Cautious Digestion General Good Manner Skin Timid
But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Decline Ever Offer Secret Yet
The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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Adequate Could Indeed Ladder Life Men might Perfection Picture True
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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Before Dollar Down Every House Knee Man Morning Night Regular Service Shrine Worship
Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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Dose Poison Small Success Taken
Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Many More Much People Talk
Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Deceive Else Men No One Succeed Themselves
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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All Ambition Earth Enterprise Grand Important Parent Rise Salt Thing World
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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Altogether Burn God Human Luxury Men Oppress Pas Pastor

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