Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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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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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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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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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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