For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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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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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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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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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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