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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA 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 concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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