A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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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.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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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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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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