I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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