I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThey who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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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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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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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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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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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 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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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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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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 circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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What is there that money will not do?
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