Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELet no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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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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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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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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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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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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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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