After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
ANTHONY TROLLOPETaken 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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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