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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

Anthony Trollope

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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Always Happy Matter Melancholy Most Novel Pretty Romance Story Tell Very
Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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Dar Express Man Many Much Proud Reall Regretted Spoken Women Word
People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Much Own People Reckoning Take Your
Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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Attorney Common Every Exactly General Give Opposite Remarkable Repute
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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Before Dollar Down Every House Knee Man Morning Night Regular Service Shrine Worship
I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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Clever Dislike Down Effort Hate Lazy Make Man Men Strike Stupid Talk
Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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Doubt Fashion Life Measure Men Place Politics Public Say
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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Clever Conscience Genius Good Great Many Minister One Prime Thing Want
Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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Admire Always Arch Beauty Life Master Neck Prance Showy Work
When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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Connect Dog Fencing Himself Little Simply Small Smart Uncomfortable
If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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Claim Evidence Follies Once Out Point Special Such Wisdom
It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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All Ambition Earth Enterprise Grand Important Parent Rise Salt Thing World
When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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Apt Complaint Enough Envious God Hate Humility Manliness Spiteful Succes Want
The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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Become Half Known Marvellous Secret Themselves Way Wonderful World
When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Him Illness Important Man Nothing Own
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Good Himself Hold Low Man Nobody Opinion

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