The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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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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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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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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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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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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