I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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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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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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