No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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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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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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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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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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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.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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