I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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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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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 a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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