In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEFor there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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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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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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