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 TROLLOPENever let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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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 reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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