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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.

Anthony Trollope

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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Book Chief Need Readable
A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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Been Bring Chastened Difficulty Duty Fastened Feel Instigate Love Mainly Man Marriage Till
My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Coin Hemisphere More Sweetheart
There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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Console Establish Generally Grievance Man Noting Perhaps Well
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Acquirement Art Cut Learn No Road Royal Short
Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Decrease English Estate Gentlemen Hand never Noblemen Preserve Resolution Such
Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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Dose Poison Small Success Taken
I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Greatest Honesty Most Rogues Talk Think
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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Always Brood Court Drop Feeling Heart Hour Injured Own Plead Successfully
The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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Being Fullest Hand Happiest Man Money Trouble Work
People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Much Own People Reckoning Take Your
Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Deceive Else Men No One Succeed Themselves
When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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Apt Complaint Enough Envious God Hate Humility Manliness Spiteful Succes Want
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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Become Half Known Marvellous Secret Themselves Way Wonderful World
When men think much, they can rarely decide.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Decide Men Much Rarely Think
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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Disobey Drop Force Hollow Law Nothing Potent Stone Surely Water

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