A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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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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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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 mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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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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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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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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