Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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 lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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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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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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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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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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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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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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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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