A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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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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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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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