The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
ANTHONY TROLLOPESpeeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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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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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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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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