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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

Anthony Trollope

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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Difficult Easy Generally Listener Old Speaker Speechless Young
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Come Easy Misfortune Necessary Success Very Unfortunate
The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Charm Double Down Life Oneself Opponent Pill Pleasure Politician Raise
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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All Attempt City Country Fall Foreign Great Grievously Most Short Taken Thing Together Unsatisfactory
It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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Angry Done Incline Little Naturally Other Proof Reach Singular Speak Think
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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Decrease English Estate Gentlemen Hand never Noblemen Preserve Resolution Such
I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Describe Description Doubt Ever Gavem Idea Place Scenery
Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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Affair Always Any Hedge Horse Look Man Prominent Steal
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
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Best Dress Gentlemen Hols Observe
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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Big Different Exactly Eye Mind Near People Seen Small Thing
The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Cloven Cunning Devil Drink Grow Hide Honest Hoof Lose Sober
There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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Another Catch Done Hear never Presence Salmon Some Achievement
The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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Good Greatest Made Man Mistake Suppose Thing Win World Worth
There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Between Differences Life Such Theory
Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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Change Content Divine Human Hurry Lower Sink Something Test
Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Audacity Gret Measure Virtue Wool
No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Dare Ever Imitate No Novelist Style Young
We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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Believe Foreigner Ourselves Possible Respect Wiser
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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Always Happy Matter Melancholy Most Novel Pretty Romance Story Tell Very
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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Been Bring Chastened Difficulty Duty Fastened Feel Instigate Love Mainly Man Marriage Till
The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Always Concrete Ear Listener Meet Outside Sound Voice Women
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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Before Dollar Down Every House Knee Man Morning Night Regular Service Shrine Worship
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
There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Console Establish Generally Grievance Man Noting Perhaps Well
Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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Country Course Herself Lady never People Person Suckie Young

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