The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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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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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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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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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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What is there that money will not do?
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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