For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt 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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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 mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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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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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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