Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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