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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.

Anthony Trollope

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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Appetite Interfere Love Mine never
It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Hard Listen Man Necessity Nothing Say
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Hideous Picture Portable Poverty Rural Suburban
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
Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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Dose Poison Small Success Taken
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
Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Deceive Else Men No One Succeed Themselves
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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Another Catch Done Hear never Presence Salmon Some Achievement
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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Advertise Anything Become Certainty Now Sell Sufficient
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
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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Chance Direction Forward Girl Good Husband Little Man Taste
I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Doubt Girl Knew Lover Mind Satisfy Whether Whole
When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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Allegiance Direction Have Married Once Own Regard Sex Thrown Treacherous Women
Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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Boast Himself Least Let Man May Peril Seventh Through
After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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After Bank Best Grudge Money Next Thing
I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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Chatter Down Hold Insignificant Put Those Wish World

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