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I have read - nay, I have bought! - Carlyle's 'Latter Day Pamphlets,' and look on my eight shillings as very much thrown away. To me it appears that the grain of sense is so smothered up in a sack of the sheerest trash, that the former is valueless....I look on him as a man who was always in danger of going mad in literature and who has now done so.

Anthony Trollope
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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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If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high.

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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

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Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged !.

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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.

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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

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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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