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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Daily Hercules Labor Really Small Spasmodic Task
If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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Between Cook Made Make Soup Two Seven Week
If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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Atlantic Before Country Cross Fall Invariably Journey Love Over Woman
People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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Big Different Exactly Eye Mind Near People Seen Small Thing
Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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Esteem Long Love Lst Much Passionate Rarely Troublesome Valuable Very
That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Bless Great Happy Raed While
There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Among Democratic Feeling More Nothing People Popular Strong Tyrannical
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
I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Action Declaration Godward Judge Man
Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Flavor Price Value
When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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Apt Complaint Enough Envious God Hate Humility Manliness Spiteful Succes Want
But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Best Good Practice Rule Scholar School Training Turn
Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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Dose Poison Small Success Taken
A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Compleleld Driven Emergency Gradually Itself Man Mind Refuse Until
The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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Become Half Known Marvellous Secret Themselves Way Wonderful World
Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Audacity Gret Measure Virtue Wool

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