I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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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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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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