Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
ANTHONY TROLLOPERights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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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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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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