The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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