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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.

Anthony Trollope

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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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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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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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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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