There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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