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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

Anthony Trollope

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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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Bliss Equal Hour Human Six Work
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
Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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Change Content Divine Human Hurry Lower Sink Something Test
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
Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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Dar Express Man Many Much Proud Reall Regretted Spoken Women Word
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
Beware of creating tedium!
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Beware Create Tedium
Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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Brave Certainty Credit Favor Fortune Give Most Themselves Unlimited World
A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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Cause Disturbance Man Married People Suppose
Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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Before Dollar Down Every House Knee Man Morning Night Regular Service Shrine Worship
One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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Clever Conscience Genius Good Great Many Minister One Prime Thing Want
It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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Death Gone Last Live Long Other Pleasure Recreation Support
I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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Chatter Down Hold Insignificant Put Those Wish World
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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Biography Day Kept Man Morning National Breakfast Nobody Post Ready Unless
Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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Decrease English Estate Gentlemen Hand never Noblemen Preserve Resolution Such
There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Among Democratic Feeling More Nothing People Popular Strong Tyrannical

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