But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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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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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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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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Of 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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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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