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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEConsidering 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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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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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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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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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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