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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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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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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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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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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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