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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPower 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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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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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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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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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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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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