Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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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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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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 a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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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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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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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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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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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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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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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