The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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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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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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What is there that money will not do?
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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