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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.

Anthony Trollope

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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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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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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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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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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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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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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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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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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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