And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMen who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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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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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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What is there that money will not do?
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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