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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.

Anthony Trollope

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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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Change Himself Man Suit Think Wife
I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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Chatter Down Hold Insignificant Put Those Wish World
Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Many More Much People Talk
Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Love Suffer Those Courage
Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Appetite Interfere Love Mine never
Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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Character Charity Consider Discuss Given Much Other Spirit Structure
When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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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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Become Half Known Marvellous Secret Themselves Way Wonderful World
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
My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Coin Hemisphere More Sweetheart

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