But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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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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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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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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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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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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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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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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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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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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