It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe 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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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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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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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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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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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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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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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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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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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