If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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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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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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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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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.
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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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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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