A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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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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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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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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