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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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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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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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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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