No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPoverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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