Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOf Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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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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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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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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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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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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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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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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.
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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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