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" And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman. "
More
Though
Much
" As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour. "
Which
Happiness
Respect
" A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife. "
Life
Woman
Wife
" But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title. "
Poor
Right
Hero
" Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg. "
Only
Down
Screw
" Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine. "
Love
Mine
Never
" High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart. "
True
Always
Heart
" I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes. "
Dress
Gentleman
Whose
" In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise. "
Nobody
Man
Morning
" 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. "
Honesty
Political
Man
" It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away. "
Feeling
Know
Own
" It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually. "
Hard
Luxury
Rescue
" It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do. "
He
Self-Evident
Man
" Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks. "
Good
Power
Person
" Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning. "
Think
Man
Good
" No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself. "
Man
Ado
Himself
" Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable. "
Long
Passionate
Last
" Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. "
Early
Success Is
Success
" The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. "
Fade
Habit
Only
" 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. "
Who
Never
Done
" There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. "
Love
Happiness
English
" There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it. "
Only
Bliss
Equal
" There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony. "
Road
Matrimony
Wealth
" There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art. "
Short
Road
Learning
" The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives. "
Own
Nothing
Satire
" 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. "
Strong
Know
Plants
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