A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
ANTHONY TROLLOPERights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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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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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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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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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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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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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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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