Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEAny one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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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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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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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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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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