There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen 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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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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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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.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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