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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.

Anthony Trollope

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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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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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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
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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All Brought Closeness Grievous Hope Human Man Mind Most Obdrver Sufficient Thing Understand
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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