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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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Alloy Fade Habit Know One Only Other Pleasure Read When
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Gentlemen More Much Nobleman
One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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Clever Conscience Genius Good Great Many Minister One Prime Thing Want
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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Always Happy Matter Melancholy Most Novel Pretty Romance Story Tell Very
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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Chance Direction Forward Girl Good Husband Little Man Taste
Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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Flavor Price Value
Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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Attorney Common Every Exactly General Give Opposite Remarkable Repute
Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Attain Could Equality Heaven
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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Almost Girl Himself Honesty Know Love Loved Man No Perhaps Perilous Position Quit
Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Enough Good Man never Think
People 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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Big Different Exactly Eye Mind Near People Seen Small Thing
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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Comfortable Feeling Ground Know Stand
My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Coin Hemisphere More Sweetheart
But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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Die Ever Fact Known Mad Man never Nothing Trouble Well
Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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Enjoyment Flatter Greedy Learn Men Patriotism Pleasant Power Quick Require Themselves
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.
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Decrease English Estate Gentlemen Hand never Noblemen Preserve Resolution Such

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