A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWe cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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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 habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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