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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEHe 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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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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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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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