I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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