Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEConsidering 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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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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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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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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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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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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