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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.

Anthony Trollope

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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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Carry Chance Disposal Favour Long Mean More Perhaps Shall Success
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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Altogether Burn God Human Luxury Men Oppress Pas Pastor
Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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Change Content Divine Human Hurry Lower Sink Something Test
Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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Bond Giant Little Man Packthread Right Rule
A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Compleleld Driven Emergency Gradually Itself Man Mind Refuse Until
The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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Good Greatest Made Man Mistake Suppose Thing Win World Worth
Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Cham Down One Only Peg Screw Thing
No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Dare Ever Imitate No Novelist Style Young
There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Among Democratic Feeling More Nothing People Popular Strong Tyrannical
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Best Dress Gentlemen Hols Observe
Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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Always Happy Matter Melancholy Most Novel Pretty Romance Story Tell Very
Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Create Equal God Make Man Morrow Shall Unequal
What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Best Good Practice Rule Scholar School Training Turn
I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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Clever Dislike Down Effort Hate Lazy Make Man Men Strike Stupid Talk
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Afford Any Love Luxury Other Right Unless

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