Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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