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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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