The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPassionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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