My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
From Anthony Trollope
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.
Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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.
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
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