Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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What is there that money will not do?
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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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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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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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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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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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