Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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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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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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