Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt 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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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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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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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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.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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