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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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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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Esteem Long Love Lst Much Passionate Rarely Troublesome Valuable Very
Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Book Chief Need Readable
Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Audacity Gret Measure Virtue Wool
Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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Hate Hatred Husband Produce Strongest Wife World
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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Bold God Greatest Habit Make Most Pass Perfect Pleasure Prepare Purest Read Tell
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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Brightest Corner Eye House Lamp Ligh Sparkle Special Thing
A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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Kick Man Over Pretty Room Say Seventy Show Unless Word
There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Between Differences Life Such Theory
A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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Before Behind Break Curb Farmer Go Horse Lame never Throw Until
Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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Almost Girl Himself Honesty Know Love Loved Man No Perhaps Perilous Position Quit
Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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Bond Giant Little Man Packthread Right Rule
It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Does Dogged Think
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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Acquirement Art Cut Learn No Road Royal Short
When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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Creeper Delicate Found Grow Parasite Plant Prosper Stroke Tower
When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Him Illness Important Man Nothing Own
The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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Become Half Known Marvellous Secret Themselves Way Wonderful World

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