Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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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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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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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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