And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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