A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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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.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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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.
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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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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