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“Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.”
― Barchester Towers
― Barchester Towers
“Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed - while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.”
― Life and Fate
― Life and Fate
“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”
― Barchester Towers
― Barchester Towers
“No," said Godfrey, with a keen decisiveness of tone, in contrast with his usually careless and unemphatic speech—"there's debts we can't pay like money debts, by paying extra for the years that have slipped by. While I've been putting off and putting off, the trees have been growing—it's too late now. Marner was in the right in what he said about a man's turning away a blessing from his door: it falls to somebody else.”
― Silas Marner
― Silas Marner
“Clarification is not to clarify things. It is to put one’s self in the clear (Sir Humphrey Appleby)”
― The Complete Yes Minister
― The Complete Yes Minister
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