It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
ANTHONY TROLLOPELove is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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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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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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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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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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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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