For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIs 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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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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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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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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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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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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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