Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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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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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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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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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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