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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

Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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Car Down Hour Love Mind Quite Railway Same Travel Woman
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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Die Ever Fact Known Mad Man never Nothing Trouble Well
Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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Before Dollar Down Every House Knee Man Morning Night Regular Service Shrine Worship
There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Also Easily No Way Well Write
He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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Above Cautious Digestion General Good Manner Skin Timid
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
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
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
I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Doubt Girl Knew Lover Mind Satisfy Whether Whole
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
No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Country Intensely Location No Other Place
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
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Afford Any Love Luxury Other Right Unless
When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Anything Give Money Nobody When Come
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
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

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.

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