A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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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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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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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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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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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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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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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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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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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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