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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOne 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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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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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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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