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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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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
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
A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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Always Brood Court Drop Feeling Heart Hour Injured Own Plead Successfully
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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End English Except Happiness Love Novel
I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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Abominate Acknowledge Humble Kind Love Men Perceive Superiority Thing Yet Youth
Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Appetite Interfere Love Mine never
I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Anything Do Government Knew never Want
I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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Child Obey Ought Ready Reason
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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Acquirement Art Cut Learn No Road Royal Short
I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Anything Ashamed Bid
Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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Hate Hatred Husband Produce Strongest Wife World
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
Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Book Chief Need Readable
It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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All Ambition Earth Enterprise Grand Important Parent Rise Salt Thing World
Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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Came Country Dishonest Proven Stony Worst
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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Become Clan Doctrine Interest Large Man Politician Slow Subversive Unnecessary
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
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
He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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Above Cautious Digestion General Good Manner Skin Timid
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Daily Hercules Labor Really Small Spasmodic Task
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
Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Above All Else Enough Good never Think
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
When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Decide Men Much Rarely Think
Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Atone Birth Low Me Money Neither Position
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 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

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