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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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.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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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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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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