But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIn 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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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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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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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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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’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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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.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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