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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.

Anthony Trollope

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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Dare Ever Imitate No Novelist Style Young
One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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Clever Conscience Genius Good Great Many Minister One Prime Thing Want
Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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Disobey Drop Force Hollow Law Nothing Potent Stone Surely Water
A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Apasmodiac Daily Dainty Hercules Labour Really Stone Task
Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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Cigar Consume Dlow Drink Free Hour Lamp Late Midnight Moctunal Pleasurable Quickly Through Youth
I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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Being Bloodthirsty Philanthropist Profesional Sometimes Through Venomous
There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Between Differences Life Such Theory
It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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Advertise Anything Become Certainty Now Sell Sufficient
The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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Adequate Could Indeed Ladder Life Men might Perfection Picture True
Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Enough Good Man never Think
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Gentlemen More Much Nobleman
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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Career Encounter Fail Great Honor Look Maymshall Reputation Risk
Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Appetite Interfere Love Mine never
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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Doubt Fashion Life Measure Men Place Politics Public Say
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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Ambition Compatible Home Muse Passage People Person Reader Surprise Unknown
Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Before Coward Men Tyrants Until Women

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