People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEFor there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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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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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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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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What is there that money will not do?
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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