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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.

Anthony Trollope

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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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Career Encounter Fail Great Honor Look Maymshall Reputation Risk
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Good Himself Hold Low Man Nobody Opinion
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Clearly Come Habot Himself Msecvem Critic Soon Write Writer
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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Claim Evidence Follies Once Out Point Special Such Wisdom
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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Create Defense Dicken Impossible Jerky Praise Rule Style Ungrammatical
There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Console Establish Generally Grievance Man Noting Perhaps Well
When 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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Apt Complaint Enough Envious God Hate Humility Manliness Spiteful Succes Want
The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Charm Double Down Life Oneself Opponent Pill Pleasure Politician Raise
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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Alloy Fade Habit Know One Only Other Pleasure Read When
When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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Connect Dog Fencing Himself Little Simply Small Smart Uncomfortable
Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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Esteem Long Love Lst Much Passionate Rarely Troublesome Valuable Very
There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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Another Choose Found Lie May Order Shunned Sin Thing Well Worse
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Gentlemen More Much Nobleman
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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Bold God Greatest Habit Make Most Pass Perfect Pleasure Prepare Purest Read Tell
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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Carry Chance Disposal Favour Long Mean More Perhaps Shall Success
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Come Easy Misfortune Necessary Success Very Unfortunate

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