Beware of creating tedium!
ANTHONY TROLLOPELet a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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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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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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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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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 is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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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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