Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPeople seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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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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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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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 a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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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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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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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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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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