Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAfter money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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