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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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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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Car Down Hour Love Mind Quite Railway Same Travel Woman
The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Cloven Cunning Devil Drink Grow Hide Honest Hoof Lose Sober
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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Disobey Drop Force Hollow Law Nothing Potent Stone Surely Water
Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Appetite Interfere Love Mine never
When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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Apt Complaint Enough Envious God Hate Humility Manliness Spiteful Succes Want
I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Anything Ashamed Bid
Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Flavor Price Value
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Best Dress Gentlemen Hols Observe
Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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Came Country Dishonest Proven Stony Worst
What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Change Himself Man Suit Think Wife
I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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Being Bloodthirsty Philanthropist Profesional Sometimes Through Venomous
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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Ambition Compatible Home Muse Passage People Person Reader Surprise Unknown
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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Always Brood Court Drop Feeling Heart Hour Injured Own Plead Successfully
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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Become Clan Doctrine Interest Large Man Politician Slow Subversive Unnecessary
But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Decline Ever Offer Secret Yet
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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All Brought Closeness Grievous Hope Human Man Mind Most Obdrver Sufficient Thing Understand

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