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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.

Anthony Trollope

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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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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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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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
Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Attain Could Equality Heaven
For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Folly Great Hidden Keep No Sorrow
Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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A small dainty 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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Decline Ever Offer Secret Yet
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Gentlemen More Much Nobleman

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