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?
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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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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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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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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