The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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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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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.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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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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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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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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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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