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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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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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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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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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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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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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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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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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