People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEIs it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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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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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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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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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
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What is there that money will not do?
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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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