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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.

Anthony Trollope

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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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Came Country Dishonest Proven Stony Worst
If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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Atlantic Before Country Cross Fall Invariably Journey Love Over Woman
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
The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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Chance Direction Forward Girl Good Husband Little Man Taste
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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Become Clan Doctrine Interest Large Man Politician Slow Subversive Unnecessary
I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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Child Obey Ought Ready Reason
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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All Ambition Earth Enterprise Grand Important Parent Rise Salt Thing World
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
A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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Always Brood Court Drop Feeling Heart Hour Injured Own Plead Successfully
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
Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Book Chief Need Readable
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Himself Man Much No Nothing Think
That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Bless Great Happy Raed While
Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Difficult Easy Generally Listener Old Speaker Speechless Young
Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Create Equal God Make Man Morrow Shall Unequal
Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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Create Defense Dicken Impossible Jerky Praise Rule Style Ungrammatical

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