The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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