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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.

Anthony Trollope

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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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Death Gone Last Live Long Other Pleasure Recreation Support
Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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Doubt Fashion Life Measure Men Place Politics Public Say
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
When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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Apt Complaint Enough Envious God Hate Humility Manliness Spiteful Succes Want
If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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Between Cook Made Make Soup Two Seven Week
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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Man More Much Partisan Patrick Politics Side Some Think Unless Well Will
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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Day Hours Man Much Ought Produce Three Write
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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Clever Conscience Genius Good Great Many Minister One Prime Thing Want
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
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.
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Bold God Greatest Habit Make Most Pass Perfect Pleasure Prepare Purest Read Tell
Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Appetite Interfere Love Mine never
A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Apasmodiac Daily Dainty Hercules Labour Really Stone Task
A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Compleleld Driven Emergency Gradually Itself Man Mind Refuse Until
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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Clever Dislike Down Effort Hate Lazy Make Man Men Strike Stupid Talk
The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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Circumstance Declare Dependent Duration Matter Nature Seem Simple Such Trail Understood
No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Dare Ever Imitate No Novelist Style Young
In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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Biography Day Kept Man Morning National Breakfast Nobody Post Ready Unless
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
One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Can Jug One Only Pour
After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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After Bank Best Grudge Money Next Thing
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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Acquirement Art Cut Learn No Road Royal Short
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
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
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Best Dress Gentlemen Hols Observe
A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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House Husband Much Very
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Clearly Come Habot Himself Msecvem Critic Soon Write Writer
But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Best Good Practice Rule Scholar School Training Turn

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