Beware of creating tedium!
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhy is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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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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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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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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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
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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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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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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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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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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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A 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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