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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.

Anthony Trollope

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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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Biography Day Kept Man Morning National Breakfast Nobody Post Ready Unless
No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Dare Ever Imitate No Novelist Style Young
When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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Apt Complaint Enough Envious God Hate Humility Manliness Spiteful Succes Want
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Clearly Come Habot Himself Msecvem Critic Soon Write Writer
If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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Claim Evidence Follies Once Out Point Special Such Wisdom
What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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Altogether Change Character Expect Girl Himself Man Married New Put Shall Suit Think Wife Woman
When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Decide Men Much Rarely Think
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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Allegiance Direction Have Married Once Own Regard Sex Thrown Treacherous Women
Nothing 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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Disobey Drop Force Hollow Law Nothing Potent Stone Surely Water
We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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Believe Foreigner Ourselves Possible Respect Wiser
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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Comfortable Feeling Ground Know Stand
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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Big Different Exactly Eye Mind Near People Seen Small Thing
Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Cham Down One Only Peg Screw Thing
I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Describe Description Doubt Ever Gavem Idea Place Scenery
The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Always Concrete Ear Listener Meet Outside Sound Voice Women
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Come Easy Misfortune Necessary Success Very Unfortunate

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