The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThat I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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