There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENo other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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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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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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