Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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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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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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