If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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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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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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