It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
ANTHONY TROLLOPEFortune 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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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 have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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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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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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