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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThis 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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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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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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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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Fortune 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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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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