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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBeware of creating tedium!
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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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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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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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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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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 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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