No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhy is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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There 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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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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