The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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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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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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It 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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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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