Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf 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 have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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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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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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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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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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