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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

Anthony Trollope

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Beware of creating tedium!
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Beware Create Tedium
Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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Cigar Consume Dlow Drink Free Hour Lamp Late Midnight Moctunal Pleasurable Quickly Through Youth
When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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Connect Dog Fencing Himself Little Simply Small Smart Uncomfortable
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Best Dress Gentlemen Hols Observe
That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Bless Great Happy Raed While
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
Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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Decrease English Estate Gentlemen Hand never Noblemen Preserve Resolution Such
Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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All Attempt City Country Fall Foreign Great Grievously Most Short Taken Thing Together Unsatisfactory
What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Change Himself Man Suit Think Wife
Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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Always Happy Matter Melancholy Most Novel Pretty Romance Story Tell Very
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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Another Catch Done Hear never Presence Salmon Some Achievement
When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Him Illness Important Man Nothing Own
The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Always Concrete Ear Listener Meet Outside Sound Voice Women
I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Doubt Girl Knew Lover Mind Satisfy Whether Whole
After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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After Bank Best Grudge Money Next Thing
Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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Came Country Dishonest Proven Stony Worst

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