The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut 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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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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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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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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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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