And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
ANTHONY TROLLOPERomance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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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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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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