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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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