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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.

Anthony Trollope

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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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Altogether Oppress Pas Pastor
There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.

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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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Even False Known Thought Word
The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.

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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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Chance Disposal Long Mean More Perhaps Shall
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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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 Envious Humility Manliness Spiteful Succes
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Any Other Unless
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Much No Nothing Think
Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Many More Much
My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.

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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Coin Hemisphere More Sweetheart
Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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More Much Partisan Patrick Side Some Think Unless Well
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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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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Arch Neck Prance Showy
Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Easy Generally Listener Speaker Speechless
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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Child Ought
There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.

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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Console Establish Generally Grievance Noting Perhaps Well
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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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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Incline Naturally Other Singular Think
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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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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Disturbance Married
One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.

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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Can One Only Pour

No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.

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