Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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