Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBut mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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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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They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
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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 girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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Nothing 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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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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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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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 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 nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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