Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
ANTHONY TROLLOPESuccess is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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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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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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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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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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