There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMake all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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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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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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