I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf 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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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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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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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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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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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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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