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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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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.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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