Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
ANTHONY TROLLOPELet 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’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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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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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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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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