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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

Anthony Trollope

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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Gentlemen More Much Nobleman
When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Him Illness Important Man Nothing Own
I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Anything Do Government Knew never Want
Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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Enjoyment Flatter Greedy Learn Men Patriotism Pleasant Power Quick Require Themselves
No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Country Intensely Location No Other Place
Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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Before Dollar Down Every House Knee Man Morning Night Regular Service Shrine Worship
I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Among Democratic Feeling More Nothing People Popular Strong Tyrannical
The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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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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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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Biography Day Kept Man Morning National Breakfast Nobody Post Ready Unless
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Does Dogged Think
I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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Chatter Down Hold Insignificant Put Those Wish World
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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Comfortable Feeling Ground Know Stand

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