That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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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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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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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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