Beware of creating tedium!
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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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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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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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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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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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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