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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.

Anthony Trollope

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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Decline Ever Offer Secret Yet
Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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Always Happy Matter Melancholy Most Novel Pretty Romance Story Tell Very
But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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Altogether Burn God Human Luxury Men Oppress Pas Pastor
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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Create Defense Dicken Impossible Jerky Praise Rule Style Ungrammatical
There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Even False Known Man Resist Thought Woman Word
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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Career Encounter Fail Great Honor Look Maymshall Reputation Risk
They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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Already Being Bosom Give Mother Nature Nurse Nursing People Person Power Use
A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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Been Bring Chastened Difficulty Duty Fastened Feel Instigate Love Mainly Man Marriage Till
What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Change Himself Man Suit Think Wife
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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Decrease English Estate Gentlemen Hand never Noblemen Preserve Resolution Such
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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All Brought Closeness Grievous Hope Human Man Mind Most Obdrver Sufficient Thing Understand
Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Deceive Else Men No One Succeed Themselves
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Himself Man Much No Nothing Think
There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Among Democratic Feeling More Nothing People Popular Strong Tyrannical
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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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