I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELate hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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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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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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