The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPeople 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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Beware of creating tedium!
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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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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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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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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