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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

Anthony Trollope

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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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End English Except Happiness Love Novel
Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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Car Down Hour Love Mind Quite Railway Same Travel Woman
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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Apt Complaint Enough Envious God Hate Humility Manliness Spiteful Succes Want
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
Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Appetite Interfere Love Mine never
A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Apasmodiac Daily Dainty Hercules Labour Really Stone Task
When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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Creeper Delicate Found Grow Parasite Plant Prosper Stroke Tower
I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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Being Bloodthirsty Philanthropist Profesional Sometimes Through Venomous
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Afford Any Love Luxury Other Right Unless
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Daily Hercules Labor Really Small Spasmodic Task
For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Folly Great Hidden Keep No Sorrow
Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Many More Much People Talk
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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Angry Done Incline Little Naturally Other Proof Reach Singular Speak Think
What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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Book Civil Coffee Cup Earth Ecer Everything Luxurious More
But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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Decline Ever Offer Secret Yet
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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Big Different Exactly Eye Mind Near People Seen Small Thing

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