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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.

Anthony Trollope

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Hideous Picture Portable Poverty Rural Suburban
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Himself Man Much No Nothing Think
There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Also Easily No Way Well Write
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Clearly Come Habot Himself Msecvem Critic Soon Write Writer
Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Atone Birth Low Me Money Neither Position
There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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Another Choose Found Lie May Order Shunned Sin Thing Well Worse
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
People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Much Own People Reckoning Take Your
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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All Attempt City Country Fall Foreign Great Grievously Most Short Taken Thing Together Unsatisfactory
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Afford Any Love Luxury Other Right Unless
Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Book Chief Need Readable
I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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Great Hidden Jeep Nom Golly One Sorrow
When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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Allegiance Direction Have Married Once Own Regard Sex Thrown Treacherous Women
Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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Before Dollar Down Every House Knee Man Morning Night Regular Service Shrine Worship
It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Hard Listen Man Necessity Nothing Say
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

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