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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

Anthony Trollope

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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Book Chief Need Readable
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Before Coward Men Tyrants Until Women
But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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Altogether Burn God Human Luxury Men Oppress Pas Pastor
The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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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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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
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Himself Man Much No Nothing Think
There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Him Illness Important Man Nothing Own
There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Among Democratic Feeling More Nothing People Popular Strong Tyrannical
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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Kick Man Over Pretty Room Say Seventy Show Unless Word
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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Creeper Delicate Found Grow Parasite Plant Prosper Stroke Tower

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