“ What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee? ”
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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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“ I sometimes think you despise poetry,' said Phineas. 'When it is false I do. The difficulty is to know when it is false and when it is true. ”
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“ There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. ”
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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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“ I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he has to tell a story, but because he has a story to tell. The novelist's first novel will generally have sprung from the right cause. ”
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“ (On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has invested his puppets with a charm that has enabled him to dispense with human nature. ”
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“ The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion ”
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“ There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. ”
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“ The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. ”
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“ Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable. ”
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“ There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony; that is, of course, provided that the aspirant declines the slow course of honest work. ”
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“ When a man gets into his head an idea that the public voice calls for him, it is astonishing how great becomes his trust in the wisdom of the public. ”
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“ A bull in a china shop is not a useful animal, nor is he ornamental, but there can be no doubt of his energy. ”
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“ She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere. ”
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“ Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning. ”
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“ What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee? ”
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“ A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces. ”
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“ Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over. ”
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“ Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over. ”
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“ Let's have another bottle of 'cham,'" said Captain Clutterbuck, when their dinner was nearly over. "'Cham' is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg. ”
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“ The rising in life of our familiar friends is, perhaps, the bitterest morsel of the bitter bread which we are called upon to eat in life. ”
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“ She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere. ”
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“ The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. ”
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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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“ Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes. ”
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“ An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted. ”
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