A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAnd though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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Beware of creating tedium!
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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