I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThis 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.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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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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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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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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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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