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. . .
ANTHONY TROLLOPESpeeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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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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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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