Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe 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.
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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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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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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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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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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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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