After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance.
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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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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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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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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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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 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.
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