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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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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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Believe Foreigner Ourselves Possible Respect Wiser
When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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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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Claim Evidence Follies Once Out Point Special Such Wisdom
There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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Almost Girl Himself Honesty Know Love Loved Man No Perhaps Perilous Position Quit
My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Coin Hemisphere More Sweetheart
Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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Affair Always Any Hedge Horse Look Man Prominent Steal
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Himself Man Much No Nothing Think
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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Circumstance Declare Dependent Duration Matter Nature Seem Simple Such Trail Understood
But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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