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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhat 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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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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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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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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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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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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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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