Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEEvery man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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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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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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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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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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