Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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