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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA 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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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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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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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