And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThe concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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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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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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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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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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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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