They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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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 lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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