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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPENothing 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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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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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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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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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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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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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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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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