There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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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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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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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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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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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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