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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?

Anthony Trollope

For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Folly Great Hidden Keep No Sorrow
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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End English Except Happiness Love Novel
Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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Affair Always Any Hedge Horse Look Man Prominent Steal
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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Been Bring Chastened Difficulty Duty Fastened Feel Instigate Love Mainly Man Marriage Till
Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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Boast Himself Least Let Man May Peril Seventh Through
Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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Dar Express Man Many Much Proud Reall Regretted Spoken Women Word
I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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Great Hidden Jeep Nom Golly One Sorrow
A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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Cause Disturbance Man Married People Suppose
There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Console Establish Generally Grievance Man Noting Perhaps Well
No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Dare Ever Imitate No Novelist Style Young
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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Kick Man Over Pretty Room Say Seventy Show Unless Word
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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Book Civil Coffee Cup Earth Ecer Everything Luxurious More
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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Angry Done Incline Little Naturally Other Proof Reach Singular Speak Think
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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Before Dollar Down Every House Knee Man Morning Night Regular Service Shrine Worship
The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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Adequate Could Indeed Ladder Life Men might Perfection Picture True
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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Apt Complaint Enough Envious God Hate Humility Manliness Spiteful Succes Want

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