Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIf you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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