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.
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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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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