There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThere is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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But 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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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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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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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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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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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It 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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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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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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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
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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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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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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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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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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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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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