Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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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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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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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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What is there that money will not do?
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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