A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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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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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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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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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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