Beware of creating tedium!
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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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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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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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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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