Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEFortune 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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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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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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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