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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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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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Atlantic Before Country Cross Fall Invariably Journey Love Over Woman
Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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Cigar Consume Dlow Drink Free Hour Lamp Late Midnight Moctunal Pleasurable Quickly Through Youth
We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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Believe Foreigner Ourselves Possible Respect Wiser
I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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Career Encounter Fail Great Honor Look Maymshall Reputation Risk
I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Anything Ashamed Bid
Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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Character Charity Consider Discuss Given Much Other Spirit Structure
He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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Above Cautious Digestion General Good Manner Skin Timid
It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Does Dogged Think
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 doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Describe Description Doubt Ever Gavem Idea Place Scenery
Beware of creating tedium!
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Beware Create Tedium
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Best Dress Gentlemen Hols Observe
Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Create Equal God Make Man Morrow Shall Unequal
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
Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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Doubt Fashion Life Measure Men Place Politics Public Say
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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Decrease English Estate Gentlemen Hand never Noblemen Preserve Resolution Such
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Come Easy Misfortune Necessary Success Very Unfortunate
I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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Clever Dislike Down Effort Hate Lazy Make Man Men Strike Stupid Talk
Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Many More Much People Talk
Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Enough Good Man never Think
Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Appetite Interfere Love Mine never
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
What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Change Himself Man Suit Think Wife
Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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Hate Hatred Husband Produce Strongest Wife World
People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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Big Different Exactly Eye Mind Near People Seen Small Thing
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
There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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Another Choose Found Lie May Order Shunned Sin Thing Well Worse

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