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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?

Anthony Trollope

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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Death Gone Last Live Long Other Pleasure Recreation Support
Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Cham Down One Only Peg Screw Thing
But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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Brightest Corner Eye House Lamp Ligh Sparkle Special Thing
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Altogether Burn God Human Luxury Men Oppress Pas Pastor
One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Can Jug One Only Pour
There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Even False Known Man Resist Thought Woman Word
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
Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Many More Much People Talk
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
The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Always Concrete Ear Listener Meet Outside Sound Voice Women
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Apt Complaint Enough Envious God Hate Humility Manliness Spiteful Succes Want
In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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Biography Day Kept Man Morning National Breakfast Nobody Post Ready Unless
For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Folly Great Hidden Keep No Sorrow
People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Much Own People Reckoning Take Your
I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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Abominate Acknowledge Humble Kind Love Men Perceive Superiority Thing Yet Youth
The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Circumstance Declare Dependent Duration Matter Nature Seem Simple Such Trail Understood

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