The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen men think much, they can rarely decide.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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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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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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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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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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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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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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What is there that money will not do?
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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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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