Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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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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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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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?
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