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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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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
There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Console Establish Generally Grievance Man Noting Perhaps Well
There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Between Differences Life Such Theory
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
I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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Anything Ashamed Bid
They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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Already Being Bosom Give Mother Nature Nurse Nursing People Person Power Use
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
Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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All Attempt City Country Fall Foreign Great Grievously Most Short Taken Thing Together Unsatisfactory
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
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
When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Anything Give Money Nobody When Come
Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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Attorney Common Every Exactly General Give Opposite Remarkable Repute
Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Audacity Gret Measure Virtue Wool
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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Day Hours Man Much Ought Produce Three Write
Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Before Coward Men Tyrants Until Women
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

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