Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat is there that money will not do?
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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What is there that money will not do?
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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