Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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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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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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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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