The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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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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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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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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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.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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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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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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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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