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.
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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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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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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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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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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A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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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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