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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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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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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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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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