Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIt 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.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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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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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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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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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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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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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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